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Former U.S. counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke reveals his fears about the “massive espionage” being conducted against the Pentagon by Chinese hackers.

How did the U.S. financial crisis happen? A review of the road to ruin reveals a course littered with more villains than heroes.

In his March/April feature article “The Next Generation of Terror,” Marc Sageman profiles the young, self-recruited wannabes who constitute the latest wave of global jihad. He argues that these terrorists, who mobilize through the Internet without any formal leadership, might be defeated by the very lack of structure that makes them so difficult to detect. Now, he answers your questions.

Record-breaking oil prices, soaring greenhouse-gas emissions, and the rise of carbon trading all add up to one thing: a new dawn for solar power. From New Mexico to Australia, governments and businesses are collaborating to create new megaplants that will bring clean electricity to tens of thousands.

The most vigorous Tibetan protests in decades have been crushed by Chinese soldiers and police. Tibet expert Robert Barnett explains why the most significant action is taking place outside Lhasa and what we can expect the Chinese to do next.

Their economy in free fall, Zimbabweans headed to the polls Saturday for an election that many hoped would deliver them from Robert Mugabe.

We’ve been hearing for months that the U.S. troop surge has been a security success and a political failure. But with little media fanfare, Iraqis may have just found the key to resolving their differences: old-fashioned politics.

Thousands of international troops remain in Afghanistan, but some members of this coalition are more willing than others. FP looks at whose militaries are pulling their weight—and who could do far more.

China’s hopes for a quiet run-up to the Olympics were dashed this month when protests by Tibetan monks and residents turned violent. The clashes reveal a Tibet that is far less happy under Chinese rule than Beijing would have us believe.

Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns suddenly went belly up last week, and the U.S. Federal Reserve swept in to contain the damage. Distinguished scholar Allan H. Meltzer sees a Fed that hasn’t learned the lessons of the 1970s and a financial crisis that says as much about the health of American democracy as it does about the economy.

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Smugly confident about the righteousness of their cause, European countries and international bureaucrats are pushing for a crackdown against tax havens. But their crusade will do more harm than good.