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Fanned by climate change and systemic corruption, wildfires are becoming an increasingly dangerous phenomenon everywhere from Portugal to Siberia.

Foreign Policy and Letras Libres are staging a very special series of debates with some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about some of the most controversial issues of our time.

Vladimir Putin’s Russia is growing more authoritarian at home and increasingly aggressive abroad. China’s global clout seems to expand by the day. And in the Middle East, a possible conflict with Iran looms on the horizon. For insights on this dangerous new world, FP turned to Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. national security advisor, author, and all-around foreign-policy guru.

China’s leaders just named the likely successor to President Hu Jintao. The trouble is, they picked two vastly different men to vie for the same top job. Will these new “heirs apparent” be able to work in tandem? Or will their competition for power pull the country apart?

Hate flying? You’re not alone. But often, it’s not the crowded, overly air-conditioned airplanes themselves that are the problem: Just getting on and off the plane is the real nightmare. For this week’s List, FP looks at five airports around the world that make traveling hell.

Should drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine be legal? Watch the fireworks as Ethan Nadelmann, author of Think Again: Drugs and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance clashes with David Murray, chief scientist at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Nearly three decades ago, he pioneered 24-hour news. Now he’s trying to save the world—and make money doing it. In this Seven Questions, entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner talks about the United Nations, the death of newspapers, and why climate change offers “the greatest business opportunity that has ever come along.”

A rookie central banker. Rising, unsustainable deficits. Rampant financial speculation. A burgeoning trade war with China. Why another financial meltdown is more likely than ever.

Health headlines are more likely to focus on countries that have worsening HIV epidemics or that play host to the latest disease outbreak. But in a select few places, longevity and fitness trump viruses and early deaths. In this week’s List, FP examines five countries that boast the cleanest bills of health.

William D. Rogers, a lawyer, public servant, Latin America expert, and longtime member of FOREIGN POLICY’s editorial board, died on September 22, 2007, at the age of 80. In this touching eulogy, originally delivered at Rogers’s funeral, the United States’ most famous secretary of state mourns the loss of a man he describes as “my colleague, my friend and, in many ways, my conscience.”

Private military firm Blackwater is in hot water over a shooting incident that left more than a dozen Iraqis dead and prompted new congressional oversight in Washington. For this Seven Questions, FP spoke with military expert Peter Singer about why even this tragedy won’t prompt Americans to stop outsourcing their wars.