
The road out of Afghanistan runs through two presidents who just don't get along.
By Ahmed Rashid
What wars are we going to be fighting in the next decade -- and with what weapons?
Playboy bunnies. $2 million Bugattis. Bags full of cash. Meet the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry.
By Ken Silverstein
China's diplomats have the ear of the world's bad guys. So what are they telling them?
By Gary J. Bass
Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future.
By Ben Wildavsky
The 9 most annoying sky-is-falling clichès in American foreign policy.
By Michael Lind
Ideas: Què pasa, China?, The Not So Dark Ages, and The Lesser Evil?
How copyrights for U.S. cartoons are holding the developing world hostage.
By Charles Kenny
How did a Wall Street buzzword coined by Goldman Sachs become a powerful new bloc in world affairs?
By Blake Hounshell
Why Muslim fundamentalists may be our best hope for stopping terror.
By Tina Rosenberg
What is WikiLeaks really trying to tell us? We asked eminent historians and ambassadors to take the long view on these startling documents, starting with a short history of secrecy.
China's rapid growth is a legitimate worry for leaders in Washington -- and Beijing.
An advocate for Washington's 'Internet Freedom' agenda has second thoughts.
The United States may need Saudi Arabia -- but do they need us?
Can the United States really make a peaceful hand-off of power to authoritarian China?
Is the peace process doomed until Mahmoud Abbas hangs a portrait of Theodor Herzl in his office?
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon

BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism

BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?

BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?

BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma

BY MARYA HANNUN