What Ails the Rest
Puffing away in China. (SpAvAAi / flickr)

What Ails the Rest

Essay

Developing Symptoms

Thomas J. Bollyky
The main health threat in developing states today is not plagues or parasites but illnesses such as cancer and diabetes, noncommunicable diseases long associated with the rich world.
Snapshot

Healthy Governance

By Devi Sridhar, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Derek Yach
For decades, the WHO has debated whether to address specific diseases or to broadly strengthen healthcare systems. With the increasing threat of noncommunicable diseases, however, the WHO has to double down on the latter.
Collection

Report: Global Public Health

Comprehensive coverage of NCDs, the World Health Organization, and what sickness will look like in the twenty-first century.
Letter From
Paul McGeough

As Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani ages, a struggle to succeed him has begun, putting the spiritual leadership of one of the world's foremost faiths in play. But with neighboring Iran moving to install its preferred candidate in the position, the secular political foundations of Iraq's fledgling democracy are at risk.

Response
Mike Rogers; Rebecca MacKinnon

Without real-time information sharing, U.S. companies cannot adapt and respond to cyberattackers' constantly changing tactics, argues the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The problem, counters Rebecca MacKinnon, is the lack of protections of individual liberties.

Video
Gideon Rose and Martin Feldstein

The editor of Foreign Affairs interviews the author of "The Failure of the Euro."

Snapshot
Jennifer Sims

Since the Pentagon has an unparalleled global reach and specializes in logistics, and the CIA has deep ties with target countries, it makes sense to gain economies of scale through combined and complementary intelligence operations.

Snapshot
Robert Jenkins and Anthony Lake

UNICEF officials explain why development approaches that emphasize equality are also the most cost-effective.

Snapshot
Jeanne Shaheen

A host of issues confront NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago. Success depends on prioritizing Afghanistan, the Smart Defense Program, and enlargement. Russia can wait.

Discussion

Liberal democracies need to move beyond simplistic choices, such as that between more and less regulation. The real question is not how much regulation but to what end.
Submitted by John H. on May 23, 2012 - 4:26am