Public Health
Green Shoots in the Killing Fields
Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 20, 2011
The Brutal Truth
Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.
BY STEWART PATRICK | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Through Rose-Colored Corrective Lenses
Poor vision is a major hurdle to getting ahead in the developing world. Fortunately, remedies are cheaper and easier -- and more profitable -- than they've ever been before.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 13, 2011
No Need for Speed
Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011
Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade
Why cracking down on Afghanistan's opium business won't help stop the Taliban -- or the United States' own drug problems.
BY JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, JONATHAN D. KULICK, AND MARK A.R. KLEIMAN | APRIL 1, 2011
The Civil War That Killed Cholera
Why the best ideas for fighting some diseases may come from poor countries, not rich ones.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 21, 2011
Meltdowns and Misinformation
What do we actually know about Japan's nuclear crisis?
BY JOSEPH CIRINCIONE | MARCH 18, 2011
Atomic Dogs
Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011
Identification, Please
In the developed world, high-tech personal IDs are the stuff of Orwellian dystopia. But for everyone else, they could be a path to a happier, healthier, less precarious life.
BY JAMIE HOLMES | MARCH 8, 2011
FP Book Club: Charles Kenny's Getting Better
An FP discussion on contributing editor Charles Kenny's new book: Are we winning the global war on human suffering?
MARCH 7, 2011
Iran Cracks Down While Egypt Cracks Up
Tehran is claiming that the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt reflect the heady days of 1979. Not so fast says the Green Movement -- it's 2009 that's a better parallel.
BY BARBARA SLAVIN | JANUARY 31, 2011
After the Break Up
Sudan has 99 problems, but secession isn't one.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 25, 2011
Africa's Epidemic of Disappearing Medicine
The global system for public health donations has a crippling accountability problem.
BY ROGER BATE | JANUARY 11, 2011
Great Expectations
The biggest problem with post-disaster relief efforts like Haiti's is the unreasonable ambitions we have for them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 10, 2011
Let There Be Light
How a new kind of bulb will transform the developing world.
BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 13, 2010
Is the WHO Becoming Irrelevant?
Why the world's premier public health organization must change or die.
BY JACK C. CHOW | DECEMBER 8, 2010
Good Ideas For Bad Times
A look at the innovative thinkers and bold ideas that kept 2010 from being a total wash.
BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 2010
Why Democracies Don't Get Cholera
It's about a lot more than just clean water.
BY JOE AMON | OCTOBER 25, 2010
The Save-the-World Clock
Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly -- including an estimated 140 heads of state -- will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
What the Waters Washed Away
The rural, conservative refugees from Pakistan’s floods have not only lost their homes, but also their entire way of life.
BY RANIA ABOUZEID | SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
The Permanent Slum
The residents of Buenos Aires's Villa 31 have been shunted to the side for as long as they can remember. Now, they're looking to assert their identity in an unfriendly city.
BY JORDANA TIMERMAN | SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Grain Pains
Imagine if the drought this summer near Moscow happened near Chicago or Beijing. Lester Brown has, and he's afraid.
INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 26, 2010
Cozying Up to the Taliban
In recent months, humanitarian groups in Afghanistan have begun to cooperate much more closely with the Taliban to deliver their services. Is that a bad thing?
BY APRIL RABKIN | AUGUST 17, 2010
Best. Decade. Ever.
The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity's finest -- even for the world's bottom billion.
BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
The Flu
The world has virtually wiped out polio, eradicated smallpox, and slowed the spread of HIV/AIDS. But when it comes to the deadly influenza virus, all governments seem to do is panic.
BY JOHN BARRY | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
The New Lost Generation
Suicide rates for troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are out of control, and post-traumatic stress disorder is reaching epidemic proportions. But is the Pentagon willing to tally the true cost of war?
BY RON CAPPS | AUGUST 10, 2010
The Fastest to Die
A study reveals how deeply the wounds of conflict have cut the Central African Republic -- and not where you would expect.
BY PATRICK VINCK, PHUONG PHAM | AUGUST 3, 2010
China's Billion-Dollar Aid Appetite
Why is Beijing winning health grants at the expense of African countries?
BY JACK C. CHOW | JULY 19, 2010
The Long Emergency
Barack Obama's administration is taking an expansive, ambitious approach to global health. Does that mean giving up on combating HIV/AIDS?
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 25, 2010
The 4 key points of Barack Obama's counterterrorism speech
BY JOHN HUDSON
Forget the Sunni-Shiite divide. It's the inter-Sunni conflicts you want to watch.
America's natural gas boom is bad news for China
BY CHARLES R. MORRIS
Wait, there are riots in Sweden?
BY ELIAS GROLL
Syrian opposition leader proposes peace deal
BY DAVID KENNER
Obama's counterterrorism policy, by the numbers
BY ELIAS GROLL
On suicide, sexual harassment, and command: A Naval officer's experience
BY 'A. NAVAL OFFICER'
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