
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?
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