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Confronting Corruption in the Developing World
By Josef Goodman, Molly Ma, and Jay Pabarue THE penthouse of power is becoming more crowded. The United States may remain the “indispensable nation,” but the unipolar world of the Clinton years is long gone. The next few decades will see the “rise of the rest.” The ascent of Brazil, [...]
The Super PAC Election
By Eric Stern THE sun beat down on the crowd outside the Federal Election Commission headquarters, but the scores of assembled people seemed unfazed. Instead, they stared transfixed at the man they had been waiting for hours to see. “Some people have cynically asked, ‘Is this some kind of joke?’” [...]
American Interventionism and the Tragedy of Foreign Policy
By Noah Remnick SINCE World War I, every American president has had to confront the potential agonies, moral uncertainties, and quagmires of military intervention abroad. Certainly, the price of intervention weighs on Barack Obama even as he pulls out troops from Iraq and vows to do the same from Afghanistan. [...]
Will South Sudan Survive?
By Meredith Potter SIX years ago, the civil war that ravaged Sudan from 1983 to 2005 came to an end. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended the conflict, provided the people of southern Sudan an opportunity to vote in a referendum scheduled for January 2011; that referendum would decide whether [...]
In the Shadow of the Crescent
By Justin Schuster ON January 1, 2012 the last of the United States’ troops pulled out of Iraq. In October, President Obama noted, “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” While this date may mark the end of a long and troublesome chapter in American history, [...]
