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Thirty years ago Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen franchise, started lending small sums to poor entrepreneurs in Bangladesh to help them grow from a subsistence living to a livelihood. His great discovery was that even with few assets, these entrepreneurs repaid on time. Grameen and microfinance have since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microfinance Make It in America? | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

Whatever; it's worked. The approach ultimately produced an unorthodox, physical and devastatingly effective game that has taken Nadal, 22, to the top of men's tennis. In 2008, he recorded one of the sport's most successful seasons, becoming the first player since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Nadal's New Spin | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

The President-elect has wisely used the cover of "one President at a time" to avoid taking a position on the deepening Gaza crisis, but there's not much sand left in the hourglass. Very soon, he and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, will have to hit the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Peacemaking Quest | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

President-elect Barack Obama's challenge will be twofold: to capture the potential benefits of a new age of government activism, while still protecting the country's long-term fiscal health. On Jan. 6, Obama warned that the cost of a major stimulus package and the continued effort to bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Bigger Government | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

How to Deal with Hamas The most immediate challenge facing Israel is that posed by Hamas. Gaza's tragedy has for days been playing out on the world's TV sets. By Jan. 7, more than 700 Palestinians, many of them noncombatants, had been killed. But there's something tragic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza? | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

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