Letters

The 2017 Global Thinker hopes that the world will "keep watching the Philippines."

A new look, a new chapter.

Josh Cohen’s article claims that I, and others, are “whitewashing” Ukraine’s past. What we are really doing is de-Sovietizing it.

FP Global Demographics Student Essay Contest, presented by AARP: As the global population ages, new technology is helping improve quality of life.

Roberto Lovato’s article claiming to be about the bona fides of our client's democratic credentials wasn't that at all.

How Norway is doing the hard work of achieving gender equality.

We've already tried breaking up the DRC -- and more than 1 million people died. 

Debating what it means to be a "rogue petrostate." 

Why Africa won't wait for Western do-gooders to save a continent.

It's Americans, not Mexicans, who are responsible for the rise of margaritas and moles north of the border.

Sergei Lavrov's misreading of Russian history.

Forget "leading from behind." Obama's Middle East strategy is closer to "pleading from behind." 

Walmart might be saving millions of people money, but it still doesn't pay its employees a living wage. 

While the media obsessed over the missteps, Afghans were building a better future.

Should presidents seek out dissent?

History might not be ending, but democracy is still gaining ground.

Charles Kenny is too quick to encourage people to give up their privacy.

Thomas P.M. Barnett lets the White House off the hook for the Pentagon's dysfunction.

The GOP needs to let go of myths about its past to move forward.

America's relative decline means that defense and social spending will have to compete head to head, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.