Health

The Big One?

Is China covering up another flu pandemic -- or getting it right this time?

BY LAURIE GARRETT | APRIL 24, 2013

Bahrain's Continuing War on Doctors

The Bahraini government needs to stop targeting medical professionals who dare to treat injured protesters. 

BY RULA AL-SAFFAR | APRIL 10, 2013

The Millennium Development Goals Are Working

The world has made great strides in combating extreme poverty. But it’s time to set a new horizon.

BY JOHN PODESTA | APRIL 5, 2013

Patently Reasonable

India's Supreme Court has ruled against Big Pharma and for the country's generic drug companies. But who's the big winner in the end?

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | APRIL 3, 2013

Is This a Pandemic Being Born?

China's mysterious pig, duck, and people deaths could be connected. And that should worry us.

BY LAURIE GARRETT | APRIL 1, 2013

Social Warfare

Budget hawks' plans to cut funding for political and social science aren't just short-sighted and simple-minded -- they'll actually hurt national security.

BY SCOTT ATRAN | MARCH 15, 2013

Our Experience in Luvungi

International Medical Corps responds to Laura Heaton's investigation of mass rape in a small Congolese town.

BY MICAH WILLIAMS, WILL CRAGIN | MARCH 5, 2013

Don't Trust Anyone Over 70

Why old leaders are dangerous.

BY GAUTAM MUKUNDA | FEBRUARY 27, 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

Not Much Better Than 'Nothing'

Esquire's article about "The Shooter" got it wrong, but our veterans' care is still shot.

BY PHILLIP CARTER | FEBRUARY 12, 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 Contagion Effect

Is the media fueling military suicides?

BY ROSA BROOKS | JANUARY 31, 2013

Syrian Purgatory

As winter clutches northern Syria, thousands displaced by the civil war take cold comfort in a temporary tent city.

BY STEVEN SOTLOFF | JANUARY 14, 2013

In the Time of Cholera

How the U.N. created an epidemic -- then covered it up.

BY JONATHAN M. KATZ | JANUARY 10, 2013

Transportation SNAFU Administration

Talking points for your holiday TSA rant.

BY AMY ZEGART | DECEMBER 19, 2012

A Real War on Inequality

The world could learn a lot from Brazil's fight against poverty.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | DECEMBER 17, 2012

Assad's War on the Red Crescent

Aid workers are caught in the crossfire of Syria's bloody revolt.

BY DAVID KENNER | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Cancer at the Heart

With Hugo Chávez in Cuba for yet more medical treatment, will Venezuela fall apart without him?

BY PETER WILSON | NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea

Contraceptives empower women -- and that's good news for the global health and development agenda.

BY MELINDA GATES | DECEMBER 2012

Printing Innovation

Seven 3D-printable objects that will change the world.

BY J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Prosperity Isn't Just a Matter of Wealth

Man does not live by GDP alone. An introduction to the Legatum Institute's latest Prosperity Index.

BY PETER PASSELL | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The Changing Face of AIDS

The people most at risk today are not always who you'd expect.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2012

Work More, Make More?

The case against long hours.

BY CHARLES KENNY | NOVEMBER 2012

The Great Pharmaceuticals Scam

India has a problem with substandard drugs -- and American regulators are allowing them to be imported into the United States.

BY ROGER BATE | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In Sickness and in Health

Why leaders keep their illnesses secret.

BY BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA, ALASTAIR SMITH | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

PTSDland

How do you heal an entire country suffering from shell shock?

BY ANNA BADKHEN | SEPT/OCT 2012

In Praise of Slums

Why millions of people choose to live in urban squalor.

BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPT/OCT 2012

There's Nothing in the Water...

10 things that kill more people than sharks.

BY MICAH ZENKO | AUGUST 10, 2012

Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012

A Country with Fourteen Psychiatrists

Libya is trying to build a new democracy. But that's a tall order for a society plagued by bad memories.

BY PORTIA WALKER | JULY 26, 2012