The Editors: Change We Can Believe In Since the AI's inception, we've had the privilege of publishing some of the best minds in policy. With a new Administration taking over the White House in January, it's not surprising that a number of these minds have found jobs in government. Now that they've had a chance to settle in at their new posts, we decided to go back into the archives to highlight... [more] Francis Fukuyama: Mexico and the Drug Wars

One of the most obvious policy initiatives that the United States could undertake right now is is to seriously up the amount of help being given Mexico to bolster security along the US-Mexican border and to help to reform the Mexican judicial system.  We started this process last year with the Merida Initiative, but the latter needs to be expanded and better funded right... [more]

Christophe Chumley & Laurence Kotlikoff Limited Purpose Banking The fundamental problem facing our financial system is not insufficient liquidity, a shortage of credit or capital inadequacy. The fundamental problem is a well-deserved lack of trust between borrowers and lenders at nearly all levels. Phyllis E. Oakley & Robert B. Oakley The Road to Pakistan's Bomb The alarming Taliban encroachments into Pakistan over the past few weeks have brought heightened urgency to the question of the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Robert and Phyllis Oakley, veteran diplomats to the region, chronicle the twists and turns in the development of Pakistan's nuclear program.
Obama's War in Afghanistan Is It
Worth It?
The war in Afghanistan has been nearly invisible to the American public since its initial combat phase ended in early 2002. But as it rapidly comes once again into view, it is poised to become a most controversial and divisive issue.
Reporter's
Notebook
The Next Darfur A French journalist reports from Ogaden in southeast Ethiopia, where genocide is the order of the day.
Rakesh
Khurana
MBAs
Gone Wild
Business schools helped cause the financial crisis we find ourselves in. Here's how they can help alleviate it.
Stephen Peter
Rosen
Blood Brothers Americans believe they are a peace-loving people, but the historical record suggests otherwise. There are dual origins to American bellicosity.
Web Exclusive The Strange
Case of
Florence Hartmann
A tribunal in the Hague for the prosecution of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia is threatening to convict a former French journalist for accurately describing two of its boggled judicial decisions.
Neil Gilbert Women's Work How to update feminism to create real choices for women and their families in modern times.
Sven Birkerts Revisiting The Gutenberg Elegies In the Google era, what do privacy, solitude and "I" really mean?
Gregory Johnsen How Not To Solve Guantánamo Saudi terrorist rehabilitation programs won't work on Yemenis either.