List of Foreign Aid articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Lessons from America’s Other Counterinsurgency
The United States and Colombia have been testing out COIN strategies for years. But the major lesson for Afghanistan is a tough one: there are no clean answers in messy wars.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will There Always Be a Pakistan?
Fissures within the military could tear not just the army but the entire country apart. It's coming sooner than you think.
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How We Invaded Afghanistan
Thirty years ago this month, Soviet airborne troops parachuted into Kabul and began a fateful occupation that became Mikhail Gorbachev’s Vietnam. Here’s the inside story of how it happened, as told by the KGB general who planned it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Latin America’s New Cold War?
Venezuela's and Colombia's ambassadors to the United States tell their sides of an increasingly tense story.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Democracy Loses the Honduran Election
It's an abomination that Sunday's presidential vote came without consequence for the country's coup-makers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Addicted to Contractors
The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Big Thinkers of Giving
How philanthrocapitalists are reshaping the world of charity.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Interview: Roy Bennett
The white archnemesis of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe speaks out about the terrorism charges against him, the country's flailing power-sharing government, Mugabe's misdeeds, and why he may well have to die for his cause.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Al Qaeda Diaries
As the Pakistani soldiers moved into South Waziristan, they found something almost as valuable as al Qaeda itself: the diaries and books that explain how militant ideology binds the diffuse world of terrorism together.