The World After Georgia
How Russia has changed the rules of geopolitics, oil markets, even cyberwar.
BUSINESS
Poor-country energy subsidies have inflated oil prices. Bringing them back to earth won't be easy.
INTERVIEW
Asif Ali Zardari, once jailed on corruption charges, could be Pakistan's next president.
PAKISTAN
Nawaz Sharif pulls out of Pakistan's government, leaving a dangerously feeble regime even weaker.
IRAQ WAR
Letter from Samarra: At Iraq's Ground Zero, too, the rebuilding process is slow and far from finished.
POLITICS
America's relationship with Russia has come to dominate the foreign-policy debate at the Democratic National Convention.
EUROPE
Vladimir Putin's war has intensified the debate over his nation's future.
BUSINESS
Poor-country energy subsidies have inflated oil prices. Bringing them back to earth won't be easy.
WORLD AFFAIRS
Russian nationalists waged a cyber war against Georgia. Fighting back is virtually impossible.
INTERVIEW
Asif Ali Zardari, once jailed on corruption charges, could be Pakistan's next president.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Kashmiris expected a rare treat this summer: peace. But a controversial land deal has made the valley turn volatile once more.
PAKISTAN
The departing president's next conquest: the speaker's circuit.
GEORGIA-RUSSIA CONFLICT
Using economics as a weapon against Russia poses risks to the global economic system itself.
The consensus in Washington holds that a revanchist Russia must be stopped before it is too late.
How naiveté and an erratic streak may have doomed Saakashvili.
As the West celebrated 'soft' power, Putin went back to 'hard' power, using gas to cow his neighbors.
Oil and gas traveling through Georgia was supposed to free Europe from Russia. Not anymore.
The conflict in Georgia threatens China's neutrality and could push it to take sides in a new cold war.
Kicking Russia out of the G8 will solve nothing. We need to rope it into the international system.
WORLD AFFAIRS
Washington's terror fixation has been a boon for the region's pirates—and is leading to another famine.
WORLD AFFAIRS
Once a repressed minority, Southeast Asia's Chinese diaspora is feeling its roots.
BUSINESS
The pundits laughed at Thaksin, but his economic populism is spreading in Asia, even as he leaves.
THE ARTS
An Indonesian artist catches fire—the latest example of the booming market in Southeast Asia.
INTERVIEW
Obama's mom was an idealist, his stepdad a hardheaded realist, his father a myth. How all this shaped him.
IRAQ WAR
As he prepares to depart Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus cautions against premature declarations of victory.
INTERNATIONAL
An alliance under fire from the Caucasus to the Hindu Kush.
HEALTH FOR LIFE M.D.
A Harvard psychiatrist answers your questions about anxiety, depression, psychoactive drugs and other mental health issues.
THE TECHNOLOGIST
Cell phones could help locate dirty bombs or nuclear weapons by 'triangulating' the source of radiation as mobile owners go by.
THEATER OF WAR
OLYMPICS ROUNDUP
PLANET EARTH
COVER STORY
Cerebral and cool, Obama is also steely, and his strength comes from the absence of a father. The making of a self-reliant man.
EUROPE
Vladimir Putin's war has intensified the debate over his nation's future.
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