United Nations

'The Law of Politics' According to Sergei Lavrov

An exclusive interview with Russia's top diplomat.

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | MAY/JUNE 2013

The Millennium Development Goals Are Working

The world has made great strides in combating extreme poverty. But it’s time to set a new horizon.

BY JOHN PODESTA | APRIL 5, 2013

Detroit’s Quixotic Bid to Host the United Nations

What if the U.N.'s headquarters had been on Lake St. Clair instead of the East River?

BY CHARLENE MIRES | APRIL 2, 2013

One of These BRICS Is Not Like the Other

South Africa is a mess. So why does it get to sit at the BRICS big boy table?

BY ROY ROBINS | MARCH 26, 2013

Kenya's Most Wanted

The United States must find a way to work with its East African ally, even if it's run by an accused perpetrator of crimes against humanity.

BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | MARCH 12, 2013

Time Is Running Out on North Korea

Congress needs to make Pyongyang pay a price for its recklessness.

BY SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ | MARCH 7, 2013

Mad Money

Why foreign aid is at the heart of civil war in Congo.

BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | MARCH 5, 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

Give Me Shelter

Syrians brave bombs and bullets to deliver aid to their war-torn country.

BY JUSTIN VELA | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Stand with Rwanda

Now is no time to cut aid to Kigali.

BY TONY BLAIR, HOWARD G. BUFFETT | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Iran Can’t Agree to a Damn Thing

Let's face it: The Islamic Republic is just too dysfunctional to cut a nuclear deal.

BY PATRICK CLAWSON | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The Incredible Shrinking United Nations

Can anyone stop Turtle Bay from fading into obscurity?

BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Ending Extreme Poverty in Our Time?

President Obama wants to save the world. But can he, really? 

BY JOHN NORRIS | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Hate Obama's Drone War?

Blame the bleeding-heart human rights crusaders.

BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

North Korea Is a Nuclear Power

And it’s time for the West to get used to it.

BY ANDREI LANKOV | FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Europe's Hezbollah Problem

In the wake of the Bulgarian bombing investigation, will the European Union finally designate Hezbollah a terrorist group?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The U.N.'s Deal With the Devil

The United Nations needs to work with President Bashar al-Assad's regime to provide aid to the Syrian people. But is it inadvertently funding the government's killing machine?

BY SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI | FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Investigate This

The U.N. will pry America's drones out of our cold, dead hands.

BY MICAH ZENKO | JANUARY 29, 2013

Why the Killing in Syria Is Just the Beginning

The international community’s failure on Syria limits its power to act against the even bigger bloodletting that’s likely to happen down the road.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 25, 2013

Al Qaeda Country

Why Mali matters.

BY PETER CHILSON | JANUARY 15, 2013

Haiti’s Recovery is Real

Three years after a devastating earthquake rocked the country, a chorus of critics has slammed the reconstruction effort. Here's why they're wrong.

BY HERALDO MUÑOZ | JANUARY 15, 2013

In the Time of Cholera

How the U.N. created an epidemic -- then covered it up.

BY JONATHAN M. KATZ | JANUARY 10, 2013

Responsibility to Object

It's time for the U.N. Security Council to do something about war crimes in Syria.  

BY DAVID KAYE | JANUARY 10, 2013

Don't Engage Kim Jong Un -- Bankrupt Him

It's time to play hardball with North Korea's new leader.

BY JOSHUA STANTON, SUNG-YOON LEE | JANUARY 9, 2013

Eve of Disaster

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013

A Network of Dictators

There's a fight brewing for the future of the Internet.

BY JAMES A. LEWIS | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Radioactive Decay

We can't keep relying on a Vietnam-era treaty to stop nuclear proliferation.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | DECEMBER 19, 2012

The Last Stand of Somalia's Jihad

Can Kenya's invasion of Kismayo put an end to al-Shabab for good?

BY JAMES VERINI | DECEMBER 17, 2012

Launch This

Why Barack Obama needs to reset his North Korea policy.

BY JOEL S. WIT, JENNY TOWN | DECEMBER 13, 2012

After Abbas

The Palestinian president will either be toppled from his throne, or die on it. And that may be Hamas's chance to pounce.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | DECEMBER 13, 2012