List of Democracy articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Interview: Marjane Satrapi
An acclaimed Iranian graphic artist and filmmaker tells FP why Iran is changing -- and how her stories have become a window into revolutionary Iran.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Unsettled
Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu may manage to paper over their differences next week, but deep disagreements remain -- Israel's settlements foremost among them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Congo’s New Mobutu
As the Democratic Republic of the Congo turns 50 this month, its leader is taking a page from Mobutu Sese Seko’s playbook on repression. And the West is helping him.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 COIN Toss
Is Hamid Karzai worth the fight in Afghanistan? We'd better learn the answer soon -- or give up the counterinsurgency game.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What’s the Frequency, Nkurunziza?
In central Africa, where on-air demagogues caused chaos in the 1990s, a Burundian radio broadcaster is playing with fire.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Karzai Factor
The Afghan president just lost his best friend in the U.S. government. And he's not happy about it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Oliver Stone Show
South of the Border is no portrait of Hugo Chávez or the Latin American left; it's about how one U.S. director views the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Afghanistan Clock
President Obama has now swapped one distinguished general for another. But he urgently needs to address the underlying issue dividing his administration: Is July 2011 a real deadline for U.S. troops to begin withdrawing, or just a clever domestic political ploy?