Human Rights
Leftist Planet
Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?
BY MICHAEL MOYNIHAN | SEPT/OCT 2012
Targeted Killings: A Short History
How America came to embrace assassination.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | SEPT/OCT 2012
Epiphanies from Salman Rushdie
The Midnight's Children author reflects on life under fatwa, the Arab Spring, and his one-night stand with Twitter.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | SEPT/OCT 2012
You Say You Want a Revolution
Before there was Pussy Riot, there were the Plastic People of the Universe. An FP List of musicians who took on their governments -- and became historical icons.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | AUGUST 3, 2012
Our Man in Kigali
For years, Rwanda's budding dictator, Paul Kagame, has gotten away with murder, while winning praise (and billions of dollars) from the West. But is the blind support for this strongman finally drying up?
BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | AUGUST 3, 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
The Teddy Bear Bombers
Foreign Policy speaks with the Swedish activists who dropped a planeload of stuffed animals into Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship.
INTERVIEW BY ELIAS GROLL | AUGUST 2, 2012
When Your Whole Country Is a Closet
Powerful images of gay Uganda.
BY TADEJ ZNIDARCIC | AUGUST 2, 2012
Burma's Lost Boys
The government in Burma is promising to clean up its act. But the army is still recruiting child soldiers.
BY PATRICK BODENHAM | AUGUST 2, 2012
Local Bloodshed, Global Headache
Sectarian conflict in Burma is once again spurring talk of a “global war against Islam.”
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 1, 2012
Money Pit on the Potomac
Why is the Pentagon spending billions on breast cancer research?
BY JOHN NORRIS | JULY 31, 2012
Children of War
Why we need a code of conduct for images of kids in conflict zones.
BY JAMES THOMAS SNYDER | JULY 27, 2012
Beijing's Real Olympic Hero
Meet Ji Sizun, imprisoned for three years for daring to take China's promises of greater openness at the 2008 Games at face value.
BY PHELIM KINE | JULY 27, 2012
Kangaroo Court
The Obama administration has done much to clean up the legal mess in Guantánamo. But as the ongoing trial of a top al Qaeda suspects makes clear, it has not done nearly enough.
BY MARIA MCFARLAND SANCHEZ-MORENO | JULY 27, 2012
North Korea's Extreme Makeover
Pyongyang's new leading man, Kim Jong Un, is all about the lulz. But there's nothing funny about life in the world's most repressive state.
BY BLAINE HARDEN | JULY 26, 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
Alan Boswell's White Whale
Enough Project responds to criticism of its South Sudan advocacy.
BY JONATHAN HUTSON | JULY 25, 2012
The Bully from Brazil
South America's superpower is shoving its weight around across the continent -- and the natives aren't exactly thrilled.
BY JEAN FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY | JULY 20, 2012
"The Elite Isn't Going to Lose Control"
Middle East scholar Joshua Stacher explains why democratization in Egypt is only skin deep.
BY PAUL STAROBIN | JULY 19, 2012
Assad's Final Warning
The United States needs to tell the Syrian regime in no uncertain terms: Use chemical weapons and we will end you.
BY ANDREW J. TABLER | JULY 19, 2012
Hope But No Change
Why has President Obama abandoned the one country in Africa he promised to help?
BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | JULY 16, 2012
Talking a Great Game
So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012
Dereliction of Duty
A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.
BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 2012
The Women of Tahrir Square Fight Back
The revolution in Egypt isn’t over -- at least as long as female revolutionaries have anything to say about it.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 5, 2012
Burma's Misled Righteous
How Burma’s pro-democracy movement betrayed its own ideals and rehabilitated the military
BY FRANCIS WADE | JULY 5, 2012
The Little Syrian Town That Could
The amazing protest posters of occupied Kafr Anbel.
BY DAVID KENNER | JULY 5, 2012
Mexico's Bright Light
Even as the country around it sinks into a morass of drug-fueled crime, Mexico City has remained surprisingly safe.
BY LARRY KAPLOW | JUNE 29, 2012
Waiting for Gbagbo
Are things so bad that Ivory Coast misses its former tyrant?
BY PETER DICAMPO | JUNE 29, 2012
Sympathy for the Devil
Nostalgia for an ousted tyrant is on the rise in Ivory Coast.
BY AUSTIN MERRILL | JUNE 29, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
May/June 2013
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