Human Rights
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
Failed Index
Foreign Policy's definition of a failed state raises more questions than it answers and unfairly stigmatizes African countries that are moving in the right direction.
BY ELLIOT ROSS | JUNE 29, 2012
The Court of Last Resort
Will the ICC's next decade see the court expand the stop-start gains of its first 10 years?
BY RICHARD DICKER | JUNE 29, 2012
The Missing 50 Percent
There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.
BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012
The Old Grey Lady in Red China
Will the just-launched New York Times Chinese-edition get censored by Beijing's media watchers?
BY ISAAC STONE FISH | JUNE 28, 2012
Putin's Got America Right Where He Wants It
And that's bad news for Obama.
BY MICHAEL WEISS | JUNE 28, 2012
The Sudanese Stand Up
The best way to help the protesters in Sudan? Cover the story.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 27, 2012
Sudan Needs a Revolution
The protest movement against Omar al-Bashir is growing -- fast -- and it needs the world’s support.
BY AMIR AHMAD NASR | JUNE 26, 2012
Why America Can't Have It All
Anne-Marie Slaughter is on to something bigger than she realizes.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 25, 2012
Build Burma from the Ground Up
Relying only on the state to implement democratic reforms in Burma is a fool’s errand. But there’s a better way.
BY ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN | JUNE 22, 2012
The Case Against Socially Responsible Business
BY DANIEL ALTMAN
BY ELIAS GROLL
What Big Macs and the Bronx Can Tell Us About Borders
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
7 Questions the NSA Chief Has to Answer
BY JOHN REED
Why a U.S.-EU Free Trade Deal Could Be Bad for Democracy
BY SUSAN ARIEL AARONSON
Jerome Cohen on Chen Guangcheng: 'You Shouldn't Bite the Hand That Feeds You'
BY ISAAC STONE FISH
Al Jazeera Asks Who's to Blame in Syria: Sunnis or Shiites?
BY DAVID KENNER
