Global

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

An interview with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.

  • Wajahat Ali

Iran’s Olive Branch

What Rouhani’s presidential victory means for Iran-U.S. relations.

  • Akbar Ganji

The Rise of Narendra Modi

A new biography tells the story of his rise to political prominence.

  • Zahir Janmohamed

The Secret History of the Haitian Earthquake

A Conversation with Jonathan M. Katz

  • Colin Dayan

War Without Strategy

The United States relies on drones to make up for its lack of coherent policy in the war on terrorism.

  • Jonathan Hafetz

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Turkey’s Non-Crisis

The streets of Istanbul are alive with democratic politics—not dramatic upheaval.

  • Wajahat Ali
  • Haroon Moghul

The Promise and Limits of Private Power

Richard M. Locke at the Watson Institute

  • Richard M. Locke

Justice Postponed in Guatemala

Ríos Montt—and the United States—evade reckoning with the past.

  • Lauren Carasik

Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Private efforts to improve global working conditions have failed.

  • Richard M. Locke
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  • Isaac Shapiro
  • Tim Bartley
  • Jodi L. Short & Michael W. Toffel
  • Gary Gereffi
  • Hannah Jones
  • Pamela Passman
  • Drusilla Brown
  • Aseem Prakash
  • Layna Mosley

Little, Big

Big-time development economists are missing something.

  • Pranab Bardhan

“No to Profit”

Chileans fight back against privatized higher education.

  • Lili Loofbourow

The Little that Hugo Chávez Got Right

Hugo Chávez—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  • Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez

Left Behind

Colombia may be entering peace talks, but the changes are not benefiting everyone.

  • Gimena Sánchez

Washed Away

Remembering Japan’s tsunami.

  • Stephen Phelan

Taxing Away Inequality

A Conversation with Emmanuel Saez

  • David B. Grusky
  • Emmanuel Saez

Defending Freedom of Conscience and Religion Abroad

The Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom responds to criticism.

  • Katrina Lantos Swett

Paternité, Maternité, Egalité

In France, a Strange, Last-Ditch Campaign Against Marriage Equality

  • Cécile Alduy

The Good of the Child

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

  • Charlotte Witt

Muslims Need Not Apply

Disband the International Commission on Religious Freedom

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Islamophobia Is Bad for Business

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment has cost the United States and the West a number of business opportunities.

  • Massoud Hayoun

Taking Off

Mexico's Demographic Challenge

  • Pedro Salazar Ugarte

The People’s Congress

Brazil’s experiment in direct democracy.

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Keeping the Promise

Rights and realities in Latin America.

  • Roberto Gargarella
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