March/April 2010
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The New Geopolitics of Food

From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.

BY LESTER R. BROWN

More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World

But what if the experts are wrong?

BY ABHIJIT BANERJEE & ESTHER DUFLO

How Food Explains the World

From China's strategic pork reserve to a future where insects are the new white meat, 10 reasons we really are what we eat.

BY JOSHUA KEATING

Eat, Drink, Protest

Buying peace, one feast at a time.

BY ANNIA CIEZADLO

The Baguettes of War

Inside the Middle East's defiant kitchens.

BY ANNA BADKHEN

The Ultimate Ally

The "realists" are wrong: America needs Israel now more than ever.

BY MICHAEL OREN

Veil of Ignorance

Have we gotten the headscarf all wrong?

BY LEILA AHMED

Dictators

Arab autocrats may be tottering, but the world's tyrants aren't all quaking in their steel-toed boots.

BY GRAEME ROBERTSON

Dispatch: Half a Miracle

Medellín's rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. But have the drug lords really been vanquished?

BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA &: SETH COLBY

Why Recessions Are Good for Freedom

Democracy is best served with a side of economic stagnation.

By Charles Kenny

An Eerie Silence

Why is it so hard for South Africa to talk about AIDS?

BY JONNY STEINBERG

Losing Obama

Hamid Karzai’s biggest problem isn't his relationship with the United States, but with his own country.

Is Our Kids Getting Dumber?

Actually, the U.S. really should care about its schoolchildren's international competitiveness.

The Right War

Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs to acknowledge that the battle for Afghanistan belongs to the Afghans.

A Tale of Two Viruses

The dangerous business of comparing cyber and bio attacks to each other.