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The Case for Breaking Up Walmart
Sorry, Charles Kenny, but Walmart is hardly an ally of the world's poor.
BY BARRY C. LYNN | MAY/JUNE 2013
The World's Most Controversial Walmarts
The big box behemoth might be a global force for good, but expansion doesn't make everyone happy.
BY COLIN DAILEDA | APRIL 29, 2013
The Case for Just-in-Time Immigration
Why America needs a personnel system built for the 21st century.
BY HILDA OCHOA-BRILLEMBOURG | MARCH 13, 2013
Think Again: Immigration
After Republicans' election-year drubbing, the United States has an historic opportunity to fix its broken immigration system. And the arguments against reform simply don't hold up anymore.
BY SHANNON O’NEIL | JANUARY 29, 2013
The Year in Unfreedom
An encouraging number of the world's people voted in 2012. But voting does not a democracy make.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 4, 2013
American Anxiety
The numbers say the stumbling U.S. economy is picking up steam. But there’s good reason to worry.
BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The Collaborator's Song
We often ask why some people choose to resist authoritarian regimes. But the better question might be why so many decide to cooperate.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM | OCTOBER 31, 2012
Into the Lion's Den
German Chancellor Angela Merkel received an angry welcome in Greece as popular anger over austerity measures continues to grow.
OCTOBER 9, 2012
The Good Life
The 10 European countries that worked the least in 2011.
BY J. DANA STUSTER | OCTOBER 8, 2012
Workers of the (Arab) World, Unite!
Could American labor unions be the best way to roll back radical Islamists in the Middle East?
BY JOSEPH BRAUDE | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
India, Meet Icarus
Why no one should be surprised that the emerging economic superpower is getting cut back down to size.
BY PETER PASSELL | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
The City with a Short Fuse
How a shrewd politician defused ethnic tension and improved public services in one of Indonesia’s most dysfunctional cities.
BY RUSHDA MAJEED | SEPTEMBER 11, 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
Rumble in the Jungle
As Brazil takes the lead in bringing infrastructure development to South America, indigenous communities are fighting for their way of life.
BY NOAH FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY | JULY 20, 2012
Rebuilding the Police in Kosovo
In the wake of its war with the Serbs, Kosovo faced a yawning law enforcement gap. Here's how the international community helped an embyronic country rebuild its police.
BY MORGAN GREENE, JONATHAN FRIEDMAN, RICHARD BENNET | JULY 18, 2012
Insourcing
America's real outsourcing crisis isn't the one Obama and Romney are arguing about. It's the talented immigrants who are prevented from setting up shop in America.
BY VIVEK WADHWA | JULY 10, 2012
Sympathy for the Devil
Nostalgia for an ousted tyrant is on the rise in Ivory Coast.
BY AUSTIN MERRILL | JUNE 29, 2012
Asia's Next Tiger
President Aquino's anti-corruption program is just what the Philippines economy needs.
BY GREG RUSHFORD | JUNE 19, 2012
Betting on a Cambodian Spring
Why Cambodia’s opposition faces a steep uphill battle in its effort to oust Prime Minister Hun Sen.
BY THOMAS MANN MILLER | JUNE 1, 2012
The Window is Closing for Riyadh
The oil won’t last forever -- so Saudi Arabia’s government has to reform its economy if it wants to survive.
BY ROBERT LOONEY | JUNE 1, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Chen Guangcheng became an icon, demonstrators rallied for May Day, and Newt Gingrich bowed out.
MAY 4, 2012
China's iPad Generation
Meet the children left behind when mommy and daddy go to the factory.
BY DEBORAH JIAN LEE, SUSHMA SUBRAMANIAN | MAY 3, 2012
Work Hard, Pray Hard
Do Muslim Americans embody the Protestant work ethic better than their Protestant counterparts?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY/JUNE 2012
16 Ways to Fix Burma
On the eve of the country's historic elections, 16 experts give us their prescriptions for the future.
MARCH 30, 2012
Argentina's Dubious Boom
Argentina's economy has been coasting on its past successes. Don't be fooled.
BY ROBERT LOONEY | MARCH 14, 2012
The Real Mohamed Bouazizi
One year on, a team of researchers uncovers the man behind the martyr and the economic roots of the Arab Spring.
BY HERNANDO DE SOTO | DECEMBER 16, 2011
Retooling the U.S. Economy for Growth
If the United States wants to stay competitive in coming years, boosting productivity is the key, finds a new report by McKinsey Global Institute. FP previews the findings exclusively here.
BY BYRON AUGUSTE, JAMES MANYIKA, SCOTT NYQUIST | FEBRUARY 15, 2011
The Arab World's Youth Army
Meet the chronically unemployed twenty-somethings fueling social and political upheaval across the Middle East.
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JANUARY 27, 2011
Child Workers of Bolivia, Unite!
Nearly 1 million children work full time in Bolivia's tin mines, in cemeteries, on buses, or in the markets. It's a tough life, but at least they're unionized.
BY HELEN COSTER | NOVEMBER 18, 2010
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Cuba's greatest export? Medical diplomacy
BY ELIAS GROLL
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
Obama scolds military over sexual assaults
BY KEVIN BARON
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
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
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