Health

Trauma Center

How do you bring peace to a country where everyone has PTSD and the only therapy is prayer?

BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 13, 2011

The Myth of 9 Billion

Why ignoring family planning overseas was the worst foreign-policy mistake of the century.

BY MALCOLM POTTS, MARTHA CAMPBELL | MAY 9, 2011

Can the World Feed 10 Billion People?

With an exploding global population -- and Africa's numbers set to triple -- the world's experts are falling over themselves arguing how to feed the masses. Why do they have it so wrong?

BY RAJ PATEL | MAY 4, 2011

Out of Eden

Pre-modern lifestyles were fraught with violence, disease, and uncertainty. We should be happy that indigenous societies are increasingly leaving them behind.

BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 26, 2011

The Civil War That Killed Cholera

Why the best ideas for fighting some diseases may come from poor countries, not rich ones.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 21, 2011

Meltdowns and Misinformation

What do we actually know about Japan's nuclear crisis?

BY JOSEPH CIRINCIONE | MARCH 18, 2011

Atomic Dogs

Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011

Identification, Please

In the developed world, high-tech personal IDs are the stuff of Orwellian dystopia. But for everyone else, they could be a path to a happier, healthier, less precarious life.

BY JAMIE HOLMES | MARCH 8, 2011

FP Book Club: Charles Kenny's Getting Better

An FP discussion on contributing editor Charles Kenny's new book: Are we winning the global war on human suffering?

MARCH 7, 2011

Fiber Cons

You don't need to be superfast to be super-competitive -- but try telling that to the governments sinking billions into fiber-optic networks.

BY CHARLES KENNY, ROBERT KENNY | JANUARY 31, 2011

The Madness of China's Mental Health System

One of the country's leading activists and health advocates explains the tragic irony of mental health in China today: Many who need treatment won't get it, while many who don't are forced into treatment to silence political dissent.

BY WAN YANHAI | JANUARY 26, 2011

Smoke and Mirrors

It's time for Washington to stop giving cigarette makers an open door to developing markets.

BY THOMAS J. BOLLYKY | JANUARY 19, 2011

Great Expectations

The biggest problem with post-disaster relief efforts like Haiti's is the unreasonable ambitions we have for them.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 10, 2011

Don't Try This Abroad

Nick Kristof is wrong. Amateurs are not the future of foreign aid.

BY DAVE ALGOSO | OCTOBER 26, 2010

Fat Race

Last year's jeans won't fit? Blame the free market.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2010

The Save-the-World Clock

Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly -- including an estimated 140 heads of state -- will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Should We Be Afraid of the Superbug?

A mysterious infection-breeding gene is sweeping the world -- or possibly just cable news.

BY JESSE M. PINES | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The New Lost Generation

Suicide rates for troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are out of control, and post-traumatic stress disorder is reaching epidemic proportions. But is the Pentagon willing to tally the true cost of war?

BY RON CAPPS | AUGUST 10, 2010

The Truth About Africom

No, the U.S. military is not trying to take over Africa. Here's what we're actually doing.

BY ROBERT MOELLER | JULY 21, 2010

China's Billion-Dollar Aid Appetite

Why is Beijing winning health grants at the expense of African countries?

BY JACK C. CHOW | JULY 19, 2010

A Tremor for Haiti's Aid Industry

The earthquake was only the latest disaster to capsize the country's already fragile local aid economy. Now outside organizations are threatening to overwhelm it entirely.

BY POOJA BHATIA | JUNE 30, 2010

Congo’s New Mobutu

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo turns 50 this month, its leader is taking a page from Mobutu Sese Seko’s playbook on repression. And the West is helping him.

BY JOE BAVIER | JUNE 29, 2010

The Long Emergency

Barack Obama's administration is taking an expansive, ambitious approach to global health. Does that mean giving up on combating HIV/AIDS?

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 25, 2010

An African iPhone? There’s No App for That.

Why Steve Jobs should let Africans buy his new toy.

BY DAYO OLOPADE | JUNE 24, 2010

Epiphanies from Nathan Myhrvold

A theoretical physicist who spent 14 years as Bill Gates's ideas guru at Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold might seem an odd candidate to take up the fight against malaria, long combated with technology no more advanced than bed nets and quinine. Here, he explains why geek power might be exactly what's needed to tackle the scourges of the developing world.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY/AUGUST 2010

Countries Without Doctors?

How Obamacare could spark the brain drain of physicians from the developing world.

BY KATE TULENKO | JUNE 11, 2010

Yemen's Child Bride Backlash

After a 13-year-old girl's death, the conservative Islamists are retrenching -- with some bizarre, yet somehow effective, arguments.

BY HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS | APRIL 30, 2010

Don't Panic, Go Organic

Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg's scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world -- better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming.

BY ANNA LAPPÉ | APRIL 29, 2010

Geriatric World

Prepare for the invasion of the centenarians.  

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY/JUNE 2010

The Ultimate Bug Zapper

Could a new weapon deal the definitive blow in the long battle of man vs. mosquito? Forget bed nets; think lasers. Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates's ideas guy, tells FP about his plans to defeat malaria.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | APRIL 23, 2010