Global

The Problem of Corruption

Corruption acts like a tax, adding to the cost of providing public services and conducting business.

  • Benjamin A. Olken

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

In search of justice in East Timor.

  • Joseph Nevins

Orientalism Revisited

Edward Said’s unfinished critique.

  • Lawrence Rosen

Inside Madrasa

A personal history.

  • Ebrahim Moosa

The Lesser Evil

Using American force wisely.

  • Anatol Lieven

Anatomy of a Civil War

Iraq’s descent into chaos.

  • Nir Rosen

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The 33-Day War

Hizbullah’s victory, Israel’s choice.

  • Helena Cobban

Trading Up

Are Latin American populists creating something new that might temper or replace market mechanisms?

  • Michael J. Piore
  • Andrew Schrank

Binational Citizens

Mexican migrants are challenging old ideas about assimilation.

  • Jonathan Fox

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

Making Aid Work

Aid can help to address global poverty. But we need hard evidence—like randomized controlled trials—to tell us which programs work.

  • Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
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  • Ian Goldin & F. Halsey Rogers & Nicholas Stern
  • Mick Moore
  • Ian Vásquez
  • Angus Deaton
  • Alice H. Amsden
  • Robert H. Bates
  • Carlos Barbery
  • Howard White
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Didier Jacobs & Raymond C. Offenheiser
  • Ruth Levine

Hands Off Clitoridectomy

Not since Masters and Johnson has the clitoris—or its absence—been a topic of such intense debate. 

  • Yael Tamir

The Rebel and Mr. Danger

Is Bush’s nightmare Venezuela’s salvation?

  • Greg Grandin

Hamas’s Next Steps

Finding the road to Palestine.

  • Helena Cobban

The Brotherhood

How far will Egypt’s Islamists go? 

  • Stephen Glain

Memory Place

Argentina’s campaign against the past

  • Marc B. Haefele

On the Ground in Iraq

The roots of sectarian violence.

  • Nir Rosen

The Citizens of Porto Alegre

Participatory budgeting has become a school of democracy in Brazil.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

France’s Revolt

Can the Republic live up to its ideals?

  • John R. Bowen

Mexico’s Race Problem

And the real story behind Fox’s faux pas

  • Claudio Lomnitz

After the Double No

The EU’s best hope

  • Jan-Werner Müller

Manifesto

An argument for democracy in Taiwan

  • The Editors of Taiwan
  • Theodore Huters

A Witness to Murder

Heinrich Jöst’s photographs of the Holocaust dwell in what Jean Améry called “the waiting room of death.”

  • Susie Linfield

Reforming Immigration Policy

The rights and protections guaranteed in the protocols for smuggled migrants are below the minimum required by international law. 

  • Jacqueline Bhabha
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