Masters of Disasters?
The World Humanitarian Summit won’t solve the refugee crisis, but it’s an important first step to solving the really big problems.
David Bosco
Rosa Brooks
Thanassis Cambanis
Elizabeth Dickinson
Laurie Garrett
Kim Ghattas
Julia Ioffe
Leela Jacinto
Whitney Kassel
Jeffrey Lewis
Aaron David Miller
Suzanne Nossel
Thomas E. Ricks
David Rothkopf
Kori Schake
Emile Simpson
James Stavridis
Bruce Stokes
James Traub
Stephen M. Walt
Lauren Wolfe
Michela Wrong
Micah Zenko
How Tax Havens Rip Off America …
And the poorest nations on Earth.
Africa’s Energy Revolution Is Almost Here
Obama's Power Africa initiative just got a huge, bipartisan blessing from Congress. But can it overcome major bureaucratic and financing hurdles to give rural Africa the boost it needs?
An Astonishing Year for the War on Global Poverty
2015 ended with a flurry of groundbreaking summits that reinvigorated the fight to end poverty and halt climate change. In 2016, we must capitalize on these gains.
Virtuous cycles in Afghan north
Driving north from Mazar-i-Sharif, in Northern Afghanistan, to the Uzbek border last week was a revelation. I first lived in Mazar in 1993, while I ...
Evaluating U.S. foreign assistance to Afghanistan
In the last decade, Afghanistan has made some dramatic development achievements. Access to basic health services has rocketed from nine percent to 64 percent. Under ...
A strong civilian assistance strategy for Pakistan
Since passage of the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act in October 2009 (aka the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Act, or KLB), the United States has worked with a ...
Karzai’s Taliban surprise
The Afghanistan Conference in London this week was expected to be a just one more in a series of international talk-fests intended as a show ...
Afghanistan Is Still Worth the Fight
There may not be a single or short explanation justifying a U.S. presence in Afghanistan. But that doesn't mean it's time to cut and run.
Prioritize in Afghanistan
By J Alexander Thier Mr. President, be practical, but do not abandon hope. Is the continuation, or even expansion, of the American engagement in Afghanistan ...
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About Alex Thier
Alex Thier is founder of Triple Helix, a strategic consulting firm and a former senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2010 to 2015. Follow him on Twitter: @Thieristan.
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