
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
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
The "realists" are wrong: America needs Israel now more than ever.
BY MICHAEL OREN
Arab autocrats may be tottering, but the world's tyrants aren't all quaking in their steel-toed boots.
BY GRAEME ROBERTSON
Medellín's rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. But have the drug lords really been vanquished?
BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA &: SETH COLBY
Ideas: Iron Ladies, and The Silver Lining
Why Recessions Are Good for Freedom
Democracy is best served with a side of economic stagnation.
By Charles Kenny
Hamid Karzai’s biggest problem isn't his relationship with the United States, but with his own country.
Actually, the U.S. really should care about its schoolchildren's international competitiveness.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs to acknowledge that the battle for Afghanistan belongs to the Afghans.
The dangerous business of comparing cyber and bio attacks to each other.
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