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June 2013 Homepage
Cover Story

Greek Recovery:
Real or Not?

a6.greece.panagopoulos.homeGreece, the nation that triggered the euro crisis, is by no means out of the fiscal woods, but its ambassador in Washington is confident that an economic recovery is finally within reach. Read More

People of World Influence

Defense Insider Says Pentagon
Needs to Learn to Live With Less

a1.powi.korb.homeLawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, has built a prodigious Washington career speaking truth to America’s powerful military-industrial complex — not as a stridently critical outsider, but as the ultimate insider. Read More


International Relations

Will New Leadership in Iran
Budge Stalled Nuclear Talks?

a2.iran.protest.homeWill the election of a new president in Iran breathe new life into stalled talks over the country’s nuclear program, or are the different sides just too far apart to ever come together? Read More


Business

‘Made in Bangladesh’ Nets
Profits for Some, Misery for Others

a3.bangladesh.garment.worker.homeBangladesh, the world’s second-largest apparel exporter, has also been called the world’s biggest sweatshop by worker advocates whose calls to reform the nation’s labor laws are gaining resonance in the wake of the Raza Plaza disaster. Read More


Diplomacy

Cuba’s New Envoy to U.S.
Keeps Expectations Low

a4.cuba.cabanas.homeJosé Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez may be a man of his time. The youthful-looking envoy, who’s not much older than the Cuban Revolution, was dispatched to Washington at a time when U.S.-Cuba relations are stuck in a timeless deep freeze. Read More


International Law

ICC Presides Over New Era
In History of Global Justice

a5.icc.hague.flags.homeThe International Criminal Court, which aspires to no less than the end of impunity for war criminals, is at a crossroads in its quest for global justice. Read More


The Rotunda: Foreign Affairs on Capitol Hill

Few Options as Landmark Pact
With Russia Set to Expire

a7.russia.ukraine.homeOne of America’s signature achievements in curbing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons is in danger of becoming a casualty of the recent nosedive in U.S.-Russian relations. Read More


Medical

Fertility Advances Giving
Birth to New Hope, and Life

a8.medical.sonagram.infertility.homeRecent advances in assisted reproductive technology are making modern fertility treatments seem like science fiction — giving hope to thousands of would-be parents. Read More


Cari