The Last Extinction?

Saving the planet, one species at a time.

BY NORMAN MYERS, STUART PIMM | MARCH 1, 2003

China's Car Bomb

SEPTEMBER 1, 2002

Endangered Humans

How global land conservation efforts are creating a growing class of invisible refugees.

BY CHARLES C. GEISLER | MAY 1, 2002

Greens With Envy

MARCH 1, 2002

Vox Americani

What do Americans want? The U.S. public's view of the world has long been a study in what seem like maddening contradictions, at times both altruistic and paranoid, protectionist and entrepreneurial, and isolationist and multilateralist. Like many other analysts, FP's editors have worn deep furrows into our brows trying to discern how Americans see the world and their place in it. So we invited Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and author of several groundbreaking studies of U.S. public opinion, to "interview" the American people on the most pressing global issues of the day. He created a composite of average Americans -- a virtual John/Jane Q. Public -- derived from the majority positions in extensive polling data and using the kind of language he commonly hears in focus groups. (An annotated version of this interview can be found at www.foreignpolicy.com with footnotes citing poll questions and data.) As it turns out, Americans defy simple labels, largely because they refuse to submit to simplistic choices.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

The NGO-Industrial Complex

A new global activism is shaming the world's top companies into enacting codes of conduct and opening their Third World factories for inspection. But before you run a victory lap in your new sweatshop-free sneakers, ask yourself: Do these voluntary arrangements truly help workers and the environment, or do they merely weaken local governments while adding more green to the corporate bottom line?

BY GARY GEREFFI, RONIE GARCIA-JOHNSON, ERIKA SASSER | JULY 1, 2001