U.S. Congress

How to Save Lives by Breaking All the Rules

How former U.S. Global AIDS coordinator Mark Dybul ditched the bureaucracy, stopped intergovernmental turf wars, pushed for results, and helped create an anti-poverty machine that actually works.

BY MARK DYBUL | SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Obama's Eminence Grise

For decades, George Mitchell has worked, quietly and diligently, on Washington's most intractable political problems. This week, he shows his cards on Middle East peace.

BY BRIAN WINTER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

The Expectations Game

To win in Afghanistan, Obama is going to have start defining the terms of the debate in Washington.

BY AMB. RONALD E. NEUMANN (RET.) | SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Can Mosquito Nets Stop Terrorists?

A previously unreported program sheds light on the battle for Africa's hearts and minds -- and the battle between the State Department and the Department of Defense.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

A Prescription for Safety

Buying drugs online may not be as dangerous as you think.

BY ROGER BATE | AUGUST 19, 2009

How America Is Funding Corruption in Pakistan

Graft is on the rise in Islamabad, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

BY AZEEM IBRAHIM | AUGUST 11, 2009

Who's Lobbying for the Coup?

How a Washington split on Honduras policy came to be.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | AUGUST 4, 2009

How Big Finance Bought the Bailout Plan

Did political contributions from Wall Street torpedo efforts to save America's struggling homeowners? Weighing some new evidence.

BY PAOLA SAPIENZA , LUIGI ZINGALES | FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Betting on IT

BY MAX PAPPAS | JULY 1, 2003

If I Were President ...

George W. Bush's policies toward North Korea and Iraq are under fire, and public approval of his presidency is declining. What's the Democratic alternative?

BY JOHN EDWARDS , RICHARD GEPHARDT , JOHN KERRY, JOSEPH LIEBERMAN | MARCH 1, 2003

Power's Paper Trail

NOVEMBER 1, 2002

On the Fence

Former INS Commissioner Doris Meissner on the contradictions of migration policy in a globalizing world

INTERVIEW BY MOISÉS NAÍM | MARCH 1, 2002

Pensées on U.S. Power

BY STANLEY HOFFMANN | NOVEMBER 1, 2001

Farewell to the Helmsman

During his 22 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jesse Helms has had a fairly simple political philosophy: the only sovereignty that matters is America's own. Now Helms is no longer chairman and may soon be out of a job. But he leaves behind a storied legacy as latter-day America's quintessential isolationist-interventionist.

BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

A Myth Is Born

MAY 1, 2001

Washington Dateline: Watergate and Foreign Policy

Will Washington return to the business of compromise, manipulation, and deception as usual?

BY LESLIE H. GELB AND ANTHONY LAKE | MARCH 15, 1973