Foreign Aid

What China and Russia Don't Get About Soft Power

Beijing and Moscow are trying their hands at attraction, and failing -- miserably.

BY JOSEPH S. NYE | APRIL 29, 2013

How to Save the Republican Party

Why the GOP needs to stop navel-gazing and embrace internationalism all over again. 

BY SEN. JOHN MCCAIN | APRIL 26, 2013

It's Time to Act in Syria

American values and interests are at stake in stopping the country's slow-motion destruction.

BY DENNIS ROSS | APRIL 18, 2013

The Enabler

The only way to stop Pyongyang's cycle of brinkmanship and extortion is to address the real problem -- South Korea.

BY EDWARD LUTTWAK | APRIL 12, 2013

How to Talk Kim Jong Un Off the Ledge

Is John Kerry ready to deal with North Korea? Here's how to do it.

BY JOEL WIT, JENNY TOWN | APRIL 12, 2013

Ten Questions for the New BRICS Bank

The great emerging markets want to start their own bank. But it doesn't seem like they've really thought it through.

BY ISOBEL COLEMAN | APRIL 9, 2013

Living Up to the Statue

After two decades of advocacy, we finally have a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.

BY HEATHER HURLBURT | APRIL 3, 2013

Haiti's Inconvenient Truth

Was a U.N. diplomat pushed out of his position for airing Port-au-Prince's dirty laundry in public?

BY JONATHAN M. KATZ | APRIL 3, 2013

Make Way for the Hybrids

Yes, institutions are important. But institutions that actually work are even better.

BY MATT ANDREWS | APRIL 2, 2013

The African Century

The unlucky continent finally seems to be on a real path to growth, but is democracy essential to sustain Africa’s rise?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 29, 2013

Walking the Talk

How Pope Francis can really help the poor -- and why he'll help the Catholic Church, too, in the process.

BY CHRIS BAIN | MARCH 27, 2013

Lessons Learned from Kenya’s Election

Kenya’s general election wasn’t perfect -- but it was peaceful. Here’s why.

BY KRISTIN M. LORD , JACQUELINE WILSON | MARCH 19, 2013

Defeating Extreme Poverty

An exclusive excerpt of USAID's 2013 Annual Letter.

BY RAJIV SHAH | MARCH 18, 2013

Lost in the Desert

What does the Obama administration make of Egypt's Mohamed Morsy? Not much. But they've still got to figure out how to work with him.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 15, 2013

What Bill Gates Got Wrong About Why Nations Fail

Did the Microsoft founder even read our book before he criticized it?

BY DARON ACEMOGLU , JAMES ROBINSON | MARCH 12, 2013

Doctor in a Desperate Land

Why an American has chosen to bind his life to Sudan.

BY JEFFREY BARTHOLET | MARCH 7, 2013

Hugo's Banker

How China propped up Chávez.

BY HENRY SANDERSON, MICHAEL FORSYTHE | MARCH 7, 2013

Why Being So Right Feels So Bad

Why did it take the State Department 10 years and billions of dollars to figure out that Iraq reconstruction was a massive failure?

BY PETER VAN BUREN | MARCH 6, 2013

Mad Money

Why foreign aid is at the heart of civil war in Congo.

BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | MARCH 5, 2013

Give Us the Weapons We Need to Beat Assad

The chief of staff of the opposition Syrian Military Joint Command calls on the United States to provide arms, not just non-lethal aid.

BY SALIM IDRIS | MARCH 1, 2013

Let Them Eat Subsidies

The Obama administration could revolutionize aid and save billions -- if only Congress would stand up to the farm lobby.

BY JOHN NORRIS | MARCH 1, 2013

Uncharitable Organizations

Islamist groups are bankrolling terror groups across the Middle East and pretending it's aid work.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS, AARON Y. ZELIN | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The Russia Gambit

For the sake of Syrian lives, John Kerry’s got to play hardball with Moscow.

BY CHRISTOPHER S. CHIVVIS, EDWARD P. JOSEPH | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Give Me Shelter

Syrians brave bombs and bullets to deliver aid to their war-torn country.

BY JUSTIN VELA | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Here’s Your Plan B

Arming the rebels isn’t the only way the United States can help Syria.

BY MARC LYNCH | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Stand with Rwanda

Now is no time to cut aid to Kigali.

BY TONY BLAIR, HOWARD G. BUFFETT | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

What George W. Bush Did Right

The 43rd president of the United States did a great thing for humankind -- but most Americans have no idea.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Death Comes Quietly in Mali

It’s not Islamic radicals or war that’s killing the poor people of the Sahel. It’s something far simpler.

BY ANNA BADKHEN | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The U.N.'s Deal With the Devil

The United Nations needs to work with President Bashar al-Assad's regime to provide aid to the Syrian people. But is it inadvertently funding the government's killing machine?

BY SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI | FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Saving Syrians, One Blanket at a Time

How I became a one-man aid worker in the world's deadliest war zone.

BY WIJBE ABMA | JANUARY 29, 2013