May/June 2012
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Save Greece, Save Europe

By George Papandreou

Get Kony

By John Prendergast

Take the Nukes off Alert

By David E. Hoffman

Get His Authority Back

By Zbigniew Brzezinski

Kill the Oil Monopoly

By Gal Luft

Cut Power Plant Pollution

By Gernot Wagner

Make a Trade Deal with Europe

By Edward P. Joseph

Fix American Democracy

By Micah L. Sifry

Edge of the World

For one journalist embarking on a seven-year journey to retrace the footsteps of early humans, the biggest obstacles are man-made.

By Paul Salopek

Rebel Country

Waiting out the coup in Mali.

By Peter Chilson

The War Before the Last War

A tiny southern peninsula still bears the wounds of Iran vs. Iraq.

By Graeme Wood

Stowaway

A reporter travels the treacherous Pakistan-Afghanistan border by truck.

By Matthieu Aikins

La Frontera

Along the U.S.-Mexico border, a photographer captures the violence and trauma of a deadly drug war and those caught in its crossfire.

By Louie Palu

Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?

The story of how the World Bank's investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world's poorest places.

By CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN

Cursed With Plenty

America is on the verge of an energy boom. But will abundant shale gas create more problems than it fixes?

By DAVID ROTHKOPF

Think Again: The Republican Party

The future of the GOP -- after the debacle.

By DANIELLE PLETKA

Opening Gambit: Geek Squad

BY RICHARD THALER

Pictured: My Enemy, Myself

BY KARIM BEN KHELIFA

Ideas: The Baby Menace

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING

Ideas: A New Law of Petropolitics

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING

Epiphanies from Bernard-Henri Lévy

INTERVIEW BY ERIC PAPE

The Things They Carried: The Third Amiga

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER

Dispatch: Rough Cut

BY JASON MIKLIAN

The Disappeared

Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?

BY FRANK DIKÖTTER