Although revelations of NSA spying provoked an angry reaction last week in Brazil, the U.S. and Brazilian administrations should treat this crisis as an opportunity, writes Julia Sweig.

Benn Steil's op-ed asks whether Germany is making the same errors in managing the eurozone crisis today as the United States made with its wartime allies at Bretton Woods in 1944.

Shannon O'Neil explains why Latin America is steadily growing in global importance.

Steven Cook looks back to Egypt in 1954 for insight into the present political climate.

According to Daniel Markey, Washington must cooperate with Islamabad on drone strikes without diminishing their effectiveness.

Reza Aslan shares an excerpt from his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, with the Washington Post.

Egypt faces a cycle of instability, writes Joshua Kurlantzick, but it can break that rotation if it manages expectations in the early years of emerging democracy and takes lessons from Nelson Mandela's post-apartheid South Africa and Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva's Brazil.

President Obama should move quickly to replace Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano with someone who can better make the case to Congress for immigration reform, says CFR's Edward Alden.

Jonathan D. Tepperman explains what Saudi Arabia and Qatar's increased influence means for the outcome of the Arab Spring.

Meghan O'Sullivan compares Egypt and Iraq.

Gayle Lemmon explores the question of how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after 2014.

Thomas Bollyky and Anu Bradford discuss the newly launched Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations and its potential for overcoming the real barrier to global trade and commerce – divergent or duplicative regulatory policies.

Micah Zenko examines past examples of U.S. military interventions to inform action in Syria.

Peter Orszag writes that the Food and Drug Administration should aggressively implement its proposal to place cancer warnings on tanning bed promotional materials.

Sheila Smith says that China's rise has called for a more complex assessment in both Tokyo and Washington of the circumstances under which the U.S.-Japan alliance might be tested.

Mark Lagon discusses the State Department's newly released annual Trafficking in Persons Report.

Joshua Kurlantzick discusses Indonesia's grand strategy.

Ed Husain hopes that Egypt will not trade "its extremists and failed institutions for international aid and attention."

Ray Takeyh examines Hassan Rouhani's 2011 memoir for insight into his presidency.

"Relations with Russia and China deserve to be given priority," according to Leslie H. Gelb and Dmitri K. Simes.