Migration/Immigration

In Praise of Brain Drain

Want to help the developing world? Hire away its best minds.

BY ROBERT GUEST | DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Spirit of Wukan

Can a small farming town's remarkable protest against corrupt officials spread across China?

BY RACHEL BEITARIE | DECEMBER 23, 2011

The World According to Ron Paul

Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011

Politics Stops at the Water's Edge

After two foreign-policy debates, we still have no idea what most Republican presidential candidates would do about the actual issues facing America abroad.

BY MICHAEL COHEN | NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The Cowboy Abroad

We know plenty about what Rick Perry, the GOP's newest presidential front-runner, thinks of America. But what about the rest of the world?

BY ERICA GRIEDER | AUGUST 24, 2011

A Murderer's Manifesto and Me

Anders Behring Breivik, Norway's mass murderer, was a fan of my writing. Here's what I found within his perverse 1,518-page manuscript.

BY PHILLIP LONGMAN | AUGUST 1, 2011

Man Bites Shark

Why are shark attacks on the rise? Because the balance of power between man and shark lies firmly -- too firmly -- with man.

BY JULIET EILPERIN | JULY 29, 2011

Rise of the Radical Right

Anders Behring Breivik is not alone. In fact, Europe has many more dangerous extremists than anyone thinks.

BY JAMIE BARTLETT, JONATHAN BIRDWELL | JULY 25, 2011

Breivik's Swamp

Was the Oslo killer radicalized by what he read online?

BY TOBY ARCHER | JULY 25, 2011

The Mullah Krekar Show

Is this the man behind the Oslo terrorist bombing?

BY J.M. BERGER | 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

Trouble Down South

For Saudi Arabia, Yemen's implosion is a nightmare.

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JULY 5, 2011

The World's Most Dangerous Borders

Thirteen places you don't want to be stuck at.

BY PHILIP WALKER | JUNE 24, 2011

Fear Dimitra

How one 62-year-old grandmother explains the Greek crisis.

BY JOANNA KAKISSIS | JUNE 23, 2011

Postcards from Hell, 2011

Images from the world's most failed states.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 20, 2011

A Bond for the Homeland

Migrants send billions of dollars home each year; they also save a lot, too. Instead of stuffing cash under the mattress, the developing world's diaspora could do a lot more good if they invested in their homeland. 

BY NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, DILIP RATHA | MAY 24, 2011

How Not to Declare a War

The Obama administration's legal rationale for bombing Libya suggests that while George W. Bush may be gone, the imperial presidency isn't.

BY SCOTT HORTON | APRIL 11, 2011

Arrival Cities

A look at nine places defining life on the margins for the new century, from Chongqing to California.

BY DOUG SAUNDERS | MARCH 23, 2011

West Africa Lurches Toward War

As the world watches the tsunami in Japan and the uprising in Libya, another part of the world is on the brink of disaster. Is anyone paying attention?

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 11, 2011

Bedlam at the Border

Exclusive photos of the human wave leaving Libya.

BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | MARCH 2, 2011

Invasion of the Alien Cattle

Why does the United States allow more foreign cattle to immigrate than it does people?

BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Not Your Father's Cuba

What Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen don't get about the new generation of Cuban-Americans.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Romas: Europe's Wanderers

Kicked out of France and unwanted in the countries to which they are forced to return, the Roma are a part of a new Europe that everyone would rather ignore.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Taxing American Competitiveness

Why is Congress slapping fees on the most productive sectors of the U.S. economy?

BY JACOB F. KIRKEGAARD, ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN | SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Megacities

FP's guide to the coming urban age.

BY RICHARD DOBBS | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Urban Legends

Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer.

BY JOEL KOTKIN | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Chicago on the Yangtze

Welcome to Chongqing, the biggest city you've never heard of.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Beyond City Limits

The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.

BY PARAG KHANNA | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Blood on the Tracks

Photos from the dangerous journey to El Norte.

PHOTOS BY FELIPE JÁCOME | JULY 23, 2010

The World's Worst Theme Parks

Where not to take the kids on your summer vacation.

BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JULY 4, 2010