
Stop Using Land Mines and Cluster Munitions
By Jody Williams
By George Papandreou
By John Prendergast
By Kenneth Roth
By David E. Hoffman
By Zbigniew Brzezinski
By Gal Luft
By Gernot Wagner
By Edward P. Joseph
By Micah L. Sifry
For one journalist embarking on a seven-year journey to retrace the footsteps of early humans, the biggest obstacles are man-made.
By Paul Salopek
A tiny southern peninsula still bears the wounds of Iran vs. Iraq.
By Graeme Wood
A reporter travels the treacherous Pakistan-Afghanistan border by truck.
By Matthieu Aikins
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, a photographer captures the violence and trauma of a deadly drug war and those caught in its crossfire.
By Louie Palu
Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
The story of how the World Bank's investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world's poorest places.
By CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN
America is on the verge of an energy boom. But will abundant shale gas create more problems than it fixes?
By DAVID ROTHKOPF
BY RICHARD THALER
The New New Normal: Getting Down to Business
BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN
Anthropology of an Idea: Fiscal Cliff
BY URI FRIEDMAN
BY KARIM BEN KHELIFA
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Ideas: A New Law of Petropolitics
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Epiphanies from Bernard-Henri Lévy
INTERVIEW BY ERIC PAPE
The Optimist: The Convergence of Civilizations
BY CHARLES KENNY
The Things They Carried: The Third Amiga
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER
BY JASON MIKLIAN
Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?
BY FRANK DIKÖTTER
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 should watch.

Can Haiti's president lead his fractured country out of crisis?

BY RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL
High-ranking Chinese official asks: Why are Jews so smart?

BY ISAAC STONE FISH
The Pentagon is wriggling its way out of sequestration

America's natural gas boom is bad news for China
BY CHARLES R. MORRIS
On suicide, sexual harassment, and command: A Naval officer's experience
BY 'A. NAVAL OFFICER'