Public Health
The Disease Next Door
How the world’s nastiest and least-known outbreaks are afflicting some of the world’s wealthiest countries.
BY PETER HOTEZ | MARCH 25, 2013
Doctor in a Desperate Land
Why an American has chosen to bind his life to Sudan.
BY JEFFREY BARTHOLET | MARCH 7, 2013
Our Experience in Luvungi
International Medical Corps responds to Laura Heaton's investigation of mass rape in a small Congolese town.
BY MICAH WILLIAMS, WILL CRAGIN | MARCH 5, 2013
What George W. Bush Did Right
The 43rd president of the United States did a great thing for humankind -- but most Americans have no idea.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Death Comes Quietly in Mali
It’s not Islamic radicals or war that’s killing the poor people of the Sahel. It’s something far simpler.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Syrian Purgatory
As winter clutches northern Syria, thousands displaced by the civil war take cold comfort in a temporary tent city.
BY STEVEN SOTLOFF | JANUARY 14, 2013
The Nudgy State
How five governments are using behavioral economics to encourage citizens to do the right thing.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013
Feeling the Pain in Tehran
As sanctions bite, some of Iran's leaders are signaling a willingness to come back to the negotiating table.
BY NAZILA FATHI | DECEMBER 21, 2012
Prosperity Isn't Just a Matter of Wealth
Man does not live by GDP alone. An introduction to the Legatum Institute's latest Prosperity Index.
BY PETER PASSELL | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
The Secret of Islamist Success
Islamist political parties aren't succeeding in the Middle East because they stand for Islam. It's because they have a well-established political brand.
BY DALIBOR ROHAC | OCTOBER 31, 2012
The Changing Face of AIDS
The people most at risk today are not always who you'd expect.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2012
The Great Pharmaceuticals Scam
India has a problem with substandard drugs -- and American regulators are allowing them to be imported into the United States.
BY ROGER BATE | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
It's Time to Act in Syria
Yes, it's true: Military involvement in Syria has its risks. But the costs of non-intervention are growing by the day.
BY MARK N. KATZ | SEPTEMBER 12, 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
Bucking the Odds in North Korea
Why Kim Jong Un might just dare to be different.
BY JAY ULFELDER | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Bullish on the Bear
It’s hard to find people who are optimistic about the future of Russian democracy. Leon Aron explains why he’s one of them.
BY PAUL STAROBIN | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
There's Nothing in the Water...
10 things that kill more people than sharks.
BY MICAH ZENKO | AUGUST 10, 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
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
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
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Public health activists and pharmaceutical companies are finally joining forces to help developing countries get access to low-cost drugs.
BY ROGER BATE | JULY 23, 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
Burma's Misled Righteous
How Burma’s pro-democracy movement betrayed its own ideals and rehabilitated the military
BY FRANCIS WADE | 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
The Missing 50 Percent
There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.
BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012
Prescription for Decline
The Supreme Court's ruling was a step in the right direction. But spiraling health-care costs could still doom America's recovery.
BY WILL MARSHALL | JUNE 28, 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
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