Comment: America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy

Annette Gordon-Reed

Comment: From Nazism to Never Again

How Germany Came to Terms With Its Past

Richard J. Evans

Comment: Don’t Speak, Memory

How Russia Represses Its Past

Nikita Petrov

Comment: China’s Cover-Up

When Communists Rewrite History

Orville Schell

Comment: All Is Not Forgiven

South Africa and the Scars of Apartheid

Sisonke Msimang

Comment: Rwanda’s Recovery

When Remembrance Is Official Policy

Phil Clark

Essay: How to Stand Up to the Kremlin

Defending Democracy Against Its Enemies

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Michael Carpenter

Essay: Why China Won’t Rescue North Korea

What to Expect If Things Fall Apart

Oriana Skylar Mastro

Essay: After Credibility

American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era

Keren Yarhi-Milo

Essay: How to Waste a Congressional Majority

Trump and the Republican Congress

Sarah Binder

Essay: Macron’s World

How the New President Is Remaking France

Ronald Tiersky

Essay: Congo’s Slide Into Chaos

How a State Fails

Stuart A. Reid

Essay: Let Women Work

The Economic Case for Feminism

Rachel Vogelstein

Essay: The Truth About the Minimum Wage

Neither Job Killer Nor Cure-All

Alan Manning

Review Essay: Beware Greeks Bearing Rifts

Why Varoufakis Couldn’t Fix the Debt Crisis

Martin Sandbu

Review Essay: Reform or Revolution?

Iran’s Path to Democracy

Haleh Esfandiari

Issue Package: The Undead Past

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