Comment: Baby Gap

How to Boost Birthrates and Avoid Demographic Decline

Steven Philip Kramer

Comment: The U.S. Army in a Time of Transition

Building a Flexible Force

Raymond T. Odierno

Comment: The Cartel Crackdown

Winning the Drug War and Rebuilding Mexico in the Process

Robert C. Bonner

Essay: Campaign Tips From Cicero

The Art of Politics, From the Tiber to the Potomac

Quintus Tullius Cicero and James Carville

Essay: Scoring Obama's Foreign Policy

A Progressive Pragmatist Tries to Bend History

Martin Indyk, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Essay: Botching the Bomb

Why Nuclear Weapons Programs Often Fail on Their Own -- and Why Iran’s Might, Too

Jacques E. C. Hymans

Essay: Europe After the Crisis

How to Sustain a Common Currency

Andrew Moravcsik

Essay: The True Lessons of the Recession

The West Can’t Borrow and Spend Its Way to Recovery

Raghuram G. Rajan

Essay: Bearish on Brazil

The Commodity Slowdown and the End of the Magic Moment

Ruchir Sharma

Essay: Workers of the World Divide

The Decline of Labor and the Future of the Middle Class

Bruce Western and Jake Rosenfeld

Essay: Mafia States

Organized Crime Takes Office

Moisés Naím

Essay: The Climate Threat We Can Beat

What It Is and How to Deal With It

David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, Veerabhadran Ramanathan

Essay: Developing Symptoms

Noncommunicable Diseases Go Global

Thomas J. Bollyky

Essay: Tough Love for Renewable Energy

Making Wind and Solar Power Affordable

Jeffrey Ball

Review Essay: The First Global Man

The Americas Before and After Columbus

Jeremy Adelman

Review Essay: America’s Hidden Government

The Costs of a Submerged State

Desmond King

Review Essay: India's Broken Promise

How a Would-Be Great Power Hobbles Itself

Basharat Peer

Response: Tough Talk Is Cheap

Washington’s Real Options in Islamabad

Alexander Evans; Stephen D. Krasner