Comment: Blood Barrels

Why Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict

Michael L. Ross

Comment: After Guantánamo

The Case Against Preventive Detention

Kenneth Roth

Essay: The Future of American Power

How America Can Survive the Rise of the Rest

Fareed Zakaria

Essay: The Age of Nonpolarity

What Will Follow U.S. Dominance

Richard N. Haass

Essay: The Price of the Surge

How U.S. Strategy is Hastening Iraq's Demise

Steven Simon

Essay: Beyond Darfur

Sudan's Slide Toward Civil War

Andrew S. Natsios

Essay: The Trouble With Congo

How Local Disputes Fuel Regional Conflict

Séverine Autesserre

Essay: The Case Against the West

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Kishore Mahbubani

Review Essay: The Distant Horizon

What Can "Big History" Tell Us about America's Future?

Paul Kennedy

Review Essay: The Myth of Grass-Roots Terrorism

Why Osama bin Laden Still Matters

Bruce Hoffman

Letter to the Editor: Putin's Russia

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Padma Desai

Letter to the Editor: CIA Chronicles

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Amy Zegart

Letter to the Editor: Chinese Ways

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Naazneen Barma, Ely Ratner, Steven Weber

Letter to the Editor: Market Blues

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Terrence Keeley

Letter to the Editor: Congress at War

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Louis Fisher, Ryan Hendrickson, and Stephen R. Weissman

Letter to the Editor: The Road to the Arctic

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Coalter G. Lathrop, Scott Borgerson

Letter to the Editor: Congress at War

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Stephen R. Weissman