Comment: The Big Shift

How American Democracy Fails Its Way to Success

Walter Russell Mead

Comment: The Age of Insecurity

Can Democracy Save Itself?

Ronald Inglehart

Comment: The End of the Democratic Century

Autocracy’s Global Ascendance

Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa

Comment: Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics

Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms

Yuen Yuen Ang

Comment: Eastern Europe’s Illiberal Revolution

The Long Road to Democratic Decline

Ivan Krastev

Essay: The Right Way to Coerce North Korea

Ending the Threat Without Going to War

Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz

Essay: Perception and Misperception on the Korean Peninsula

How Unwanted Wars Begin

Robert Jervis and Mira Rapp-Hooper

Essay: Opioids of the Masses

Stopping an American Epidemic From Going Global

Keith Humphreys, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Essay: Globalization Is Not in Retreat

Digital Technology and the Future of Trade

Susan Lund and Laura Tyson

Essay: Where Myanmar Went Wrong

From Democratic Awakening to Ethnic Cleansing

Zoltan Barany

Interview: The Ultimate Life Hacker

A Conversation With Jennifer Doudna

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Essay: Gene Editing for Good

How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development

Bill Gates

Essay: Keep CRISPR Safe

Regulating a Genetic Revolution

Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno

Essay: The New Killer Pathogens

Countering the Coming Bioweapons Threat

Kate Charlet

Review Essay: The Long Arc of Human Rights

A Case for Optimism

Caroline Bettinger-López

Essay: China’s New Revolution

The Reign of Xi Jinping

Elizabeth Economy

Issue Package: Is Democracy Dying?

What's Inside

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Essay: Fresh Prince

The Schemes and Dreams of Saudi Arabia’s Next King

F. Gregory Gause III