Libya

Interventionism Run Amok

Obama has just declared preventing mass atrocities to be a "core national security interest" of the United States. Americans, watch your wallets.

BY CELESTE WARD GVENTER | AUGUST 10, 2011

Amazing Grace

To paraphrase the old adage, there are no atheists in NATO-besieged pleasure palaces. FP looks at the dictators and warlords who've embraced a higher power once they ran low on the earthly kind.

BY EDMUND DOWNIE | AUGUST 5, 2011

This Fight Ain't Over

Think the debt ceiling gridlock was ugly? Congress is just getting warmed up. Here are eight more foreign-policy battles right around the corner.

BY JOSH ROGIN | AUGUST 4, 2011

Guilty Until Proven Guilty

In the cage of justice, sometimes a courtroom's verdict is long foretold.

BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 3, 2011

The Arab Recession

They may be cheering for democracy, but for most countries affected by the Arab Spring the economic news will have them crying.

BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 22, 2011

A Continent, Sinking

Europe's financial crisis is a Titanic moment, threatening to bring down not only the EU's major economies, but its political raison d'être. Is it too late to save the ship?

BY STEVEN ERLANGER | JULY 20, 2011

Lift One from the Gipper

Tim Pawlenty has the Reaganite foreign policy talking points down, but do they add up to anything?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 1, 2011

Justice League

The case for calling off the Tomahawks and bringing Muammar al-Qaddafi to The Hague.

BY DAVID SCHEFFER | JUNE 29, 2011

A Five-Star Retirement Home for Dictators

Welcome to sunny Saudi Arabia, land of fallen tyrants.

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JUNE 23, 2011

Dark Crystal

Why didn't anyone predict the Arab revolutions?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 2011

The Cynical Dairy Farmer's Guide to the New Middle East

How a couple of cows explain a changing region: equal opportunity offender edition.

BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JUNE 15, 2011

It's Evening in America

At the first GOP presidential debate, the Bush-era neoconservative movement seemed as good as dead.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JUNE 14, 2011

Game of Thrones

Morocco is the Arab world's last chance to prove that monarchs can reform their countries without getting thrown out of them.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 10, 2011

The Siege of Misrata

Deep in Qaddafi-held territory, a rebel stronghold grits its teeth and hopes for the best.

BY PORTIA WALKER | JUNE 9, 2011

Pyongyang Spring

Could Kim Jong Il's regime be the next autocratic government to fall? Don't bet on it.

BY SEBASTIAN STRANGIO | JUNE 8, 2011

Libyan Limbo

Six reasons why it's been so tough to get Qaddafi to quit.

BY DANIEL BYMAN, MATTHEW WAXMAN | JUNE 2, 2011

Obama's Illegal War

Libya is important, but the U.S. Constitution is ultimately what we're fighting for.

BY BRUCE ACKERMAN, OONA HATHAWAY | JUNE 1, 2011

It's Their Country, Too

Children on the increasingly violent frontlines of the Arab Spring face an unknown future for themselves and their countries.

MAY 27, 2011

The Smallest Victims

The war in Libya has taken a shocking, wrenching toll on the children of Misrata and Benghazi.

BY RUTH SHERLOCK | MAY 27, 2011

Witness to War

Photographer Anton Hammerl’s final photos of the Libyan rebel front.

MAY 20, 2011

A Day Under Fire with Anton

Two days before Anton Hammerl was killed in Libya, I spent a few, good, honest hours of war and peace in the field with him.

BY XAVIER MAS DE XAXÀS | MAY 20, 2011

Mad Dog in The Hague?

It might seem quixotic for the International Criminal Court to indict Libya's unrepentant leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi. But the call for justice can have a pragmatic effect too.

BY JAMES A. GOLDSTON | MAY 16, 2011

Arab Spring, Turkish Fall

Turkey's leaders are looking less like the new Ottomans they've imagined themselves to be and more like stumbling politicians afraid of a new regional order.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | MAY 5, 2011

Muzzling the Truth

The death and rebirth of a Benghazi newspaper shows how Qaddafi crushed Libya's press for four decades - and how it's now roaring back.

BY DAVID KENNER | MAY 4, 2011

Saif House

A group of Libyan expats has made Saif Qaddafi's mansion in London the frontline in Libya's struggle for democracy.

BY ROLAND ELLIOTT BROWN | APRIL 28, 2011

The Vulture Club

Tim Hetherington was a member of a special, close-knit brotherhood: people who work in war zones.

BY PETER BOUCKAERT | APRIL 26, 2011

Why Recessions Are Good for Freedom

Democracy is best served with a side of economic stagnation.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2011

What Happens When the Arab Spring Turns to Summer?

Ruminations on the revolutions of 2011.

BY DAVID IGNATIUS | APRIL 22, 2011

The Improvised State

Who's actually running things in free Libya?

BY RYAN CALDER | APRIL 20, 2011

Back in the Saddle

How Libya helped NATO get its groove back.

BY JAMES JOYNER | APRIL 15, 2011