Peace
Big Trouble in Farmville
Melting glaciers and superstorms won't matter if the world can't feed itself.
Spies, Swaps, and Sins of Omission
Five ways to tell the Middle East peace process is in big trouble.
The Big Chill
The United States and its allies have imposed stinging sanctions on Russia. To make them work, they need to hold fast.
From Détente to Meltdown
Will Russian adventurism in Crimea blow up the P5+1 nuclear talks? Iran's hard-liners sure hope so.
No Country for Young Men
A generation of Lost Boys returned home to build a new nation in South Sudan. Now war has found them again.
Another Kind of Surge
How the United States can pull Sudan and South Sudan back from the brink of disaster.
Confronting Ghosts
France convicts a Rwandan of genocide -- and grapples with its own role in the horrific events of 1994.
Boots on the Ground
Should NATO troops help enforce an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement?
The New Tyranny
How development experts have empowered dictators and helped to trap millions and millions of people in poverty.
Unarmed and Dangerous
With civilian rape on the rise, the war on Congo's women comes painfully, pervasively home.
No Contest
Obama gambled that U.S. power would trump Russia's interests in Ukraine. He was wrong.
America Has a Plan. And, No, It Isn't One That Israel Would Like.
New poll shows that if the two-state solution collapses, U.S. public favors democracy over Jewishness.
Deserted
African asylum-seekers are done keeping quiet about the Israeli government's failure to help them. But is anyone listening?
Icebergs Ahead
The interim nuclear deal with Iran was huge -- but a permanent solution is going to be much, much harder to reach.
Bosnia Burning
Is the war-traumatized, fractured, and corrupt Balkan state finally experiencing a political revolution?
Rand Paul Is Right
The United States needs to officially end the Iraq war -- or else acknowledge that it’s waging an endless and unwinnable fight.
Trading Places
How the trade vs. aid debate shows the different trajectories of Egypt and Tunisia.
Palestine's Peace Bomb
What will happen when one million refugees have the right to return -- to the West Bank?
Mercury Rising
Can opposition leaders contain protest violence in Ukraine—or is the country headed for “prolonged guerrilla warfare”?
With Negotiators Like These...
Peace talks won't solve the crisis in South Sudan. Africa-style justice will.
A Bittersweet Legacy
Remembering a popular restaurateur killed in Kabul—and a policy of segregation that humiliated local Afghans.
Cut Short
The latest threat to international peacekeeping is political warfare in Washington.
Media That Moves Millions
Social media may be protesters' favorite weapon, but new research on Syria's revolution shows it can do as much harm as good.
'We Want to Move On'
What do Egyptians really care about in their country's constitutional referendum? Not the constitution, for starters.
Something Rotten in the State of Denmark
How one of the world’s major shipping companies is hindering the fight against world hunger.