Fourth Nuclear Reactor at Pakistan's Khushab Site
Photos obtained by NEWSWEEK reveal a more aggressive buildup than previously known. So why does Washington still stay mum?
Francis Fukuyama Book: Origins of Political Order
As the communist era vanished, he declared history's end. With the Middle East in revolt and China rising, Francis Fukuyama is back. What is he thinking?
Interview: Francis Fukuyama
He wrote "The End of History." Now the Japanese-American historian ponders the tsunami's wake.
Family-Owned Businesses Get Through Hard Times
The post-crisis numbers are in, and it paid off to be a patriarch. Think back to the height of the panic that was toppling global banks in late 2008, and a story from São Paulo sticks out.
Fewer Nukes, but More Money
New START builds on decades of the U.S. slashing its way toward a nuke-free world. So why is Washington now poised to spend tens of billions more on nuclear weapons in the next decade?
Five Questions Sparked by the WikiLeaks Documents
There's simply too much information in the latest deluge of secret State Department documents made public by WikiLeaks to get a real handle on exactly how the 250,000 classified cables will change the diplomatic landscape in the long term. There are, however, five key questions that we should be asking now.
How to Search the WikiLeaks Documents
The sheer volume of the release of the 251,287 diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks plans to make public is unquestionably overwhelming. Against the will of the State Department, WikiLeaks plans to eventually release cables from 274 embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions around the world from, mostly, the last three years.
The Warrior's Brain
One family's terrifying medical mystery could represent the military's next big crisis.
'We Just Don't Know'
The Army's vice chief of staff--who has taken on the task of addressing mental-health issues in the military and gone before Congress to explain the Army's work on the invisible wounds of war--discusses the science of battlefield concussions.
Fines for Foreign Bribes Spike, Drawing Scrutiny
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a 1977 law targeting businesses that bribe foreign officials, spent the early part of this decade in a slumber. In 2000, there wasn't a single prosecution, and in 2006, the Justice Department won just $18 million in penalties.
Q&A With Bangladesh P.M. Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Just five years ago, Bangladesh held the unenviable title of being the world's most corrupt country. Today, it's a darling of Wall Street. On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who headed the country in the late 1990s and came back to power in January 2009, sat down with NEWSWEEK's Andrew Bast to discuss economic growth, radicalism, and the power of women. Excerpts:
China Butts Heads With Japan
East Asia may be reveling in its unprecedented economic growth, but old-fashioned territorial feuds continue to fester. The latest reminder came last week at the United Nations, with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warning darkly of the unnamed "consequences" Japan would incur unless it released the captain of a Chinese fishing boat "immediately and unconditionally." The skipper and his crew were arrested on Sept. 7 after his vessel collided with two Japanese Coast Guard ships off a disputed and...
'Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide From America'
Is China ready to rule the world? Not quite yet. The fact is that Asia still needs American power. And if our time is indeed witnessing the long handoff of global power from one empire to another, the smoother the transition, the better.
Crony Capitalism in Emerging Markets
Surveying the landscape of emerging markets today, the "Slim syndrome" is one of the foremost dangers developing economies face.
Headline Writers: Bacevich's 'Washington Rules'
America's militaristic, idealistic approach to the world is costing the country dearly. That's the theme of foreign-policy guru Andrew Bacevich's new book, "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War." A Boston University professor and West Point grad who spent 23 years in the Army, Bacevich thinks everyone would get along just fine without the U.S. playing global policeman—and what's more, things would improve at home if we stopped squandering resources abroad.
'Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War'
Groupthink is alive and thriving in Washington, D.C., argues Andrew Bacevich, who's convinced that America's mightily militaristic and endlessly idealistic approach to the rest of the world is costing the country dearly.
The Pentagon Papers, Redux
The WikiLeaks scoop on Afghanistan, a modern-day version of the Pentagon Papers, is going to ignite a very loud debate about the efficacy and morality of the war.
Afghanistan Wants to See the Money
One of the more surprising decisions to come out of the international conference held in Kabul last week was to start funneling half of foreign aid directly through the Afghan government, compared with only 20 percent now. Those billions will be an inviting target: Transparency International ranks Afghanistan second worst on its Corruption Perceptions Index.
Fighting to Make U.S. Exports Greener
Environmental groups complain that the U.S. Export-Import Bank isn't living up to pledges to be more sensitive to climate control.
The Afghan Story We Missed While Obsessing Over McChrystal
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's disrespectful comments to a Rolling Stone reporter have dominated the news cycle. But there was another important story about Afghanistan yesterday: a new report about American reliance on a very dangerous liability—Afghan warlords.
How Rolling Stone Got Into McChrystal's Inner Circle
Rolling Stone author—and NEWSWEEK alumnus—Michael Hastings explains how he got such good access from General McChrystal's camp, whether he expected such nuclear fallout, and how the grunts grouse about McChrystal's mission.
If Afghanistan Seems Violent Now, Just You Wait
Officials in the U.S. military say the offensive in southern Afghanistan isn't going to be as aggressive as they once suggested. So why is violence surging there?
We Read a Book Intended for Counterinsurgents
No cable-television talking heads here. The armchair chicken hawks have been scattered. This is one of the sharpest and most incisive minds on modern warfare getting deep in the weeds on what it takes to win today's wars. And how to do it.
Beinart's 'Icarus Syndrome': We Are Too Ambitious
The United States has undertaken absurdly ambitious goals for the battle it is about to fight in Afghanistan. Is Obama replaying a tragic American script? Peter Beinart's 'The Icarus Syndrome' suggests he might be.
Q&A: Gareth Evans on Nuclear Arms
World leaders have descended on the United Nations in New York to spend the month reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The agenda is long: Iran, disarmament, and new nuclear plants. NEWSWEEK's Andrew Bast talked to Gareth Evans, former Australian foreign minister and current co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, about what is becoming a "watershed year" in global nuclear politics.
Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
Richard Clarke explains how cyberspace has made individuals, corporations, and nations vulnerable to a new kind of attack from an elusive and largely misunderstood foe. He discusses the origin of the threat, how it is growing, and what an effective cyberdefense would look like.
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
Thomas Barfield delivers a one-stop, full accounting of Afghanistan's geography, people, and history. If it weren't so painstakingly researched and intensely assembled, it could be called "Afghanistan for Dummies." He starts in the premodern era and sweeps up through the present day.
What Would It Take To Rid The World Of Nukes?
The recent renewal of the start treaty between Russia and America was a big victory for Barack Obama's arms-control agenda. The former enemies agreed to slash their warhead arsenals to 1,550 each and also reduce missile launchers and bombers.
College: Making The Case For Useless Degrees
Why you should ignore the grown-ups and opt for an imaginative, if not lucrative, course of study.
Foreign Policy Disappearing From the State of the Union
Listening to President Barack Obama deliver his State of the Union address last night, anyone interested in, say, Afghanistan found themselves waiting through talk of jobs.