Comment: The Self-Destruction of American Power

Washington Squandered the Unipolar Moment

Fareed Zakaria

Comment: Democracy Demotion

How the Freedom Agenda Fell Apart

Larry Diamond

Comment: Globalization’s Wrong Turn

And How It Hurt America

Dani Rodrik

Comment: Faith-Based Finance

How Wall Street Became a Cult of Risk

Gillian Tett

Comment: The Republican Devolution

Partisanship and the Decline of American Governance

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Comment: It’s the Institutions, Stupid

The Real Roots of America’s Political Crisis

Julia Azari

Essay: American Hustle

What Mueller Found—and Didn’t Find—About Trump and Russia

Stephen Kotkin

Essay: The New Tiananmen Papers

Inside the Secret Meeting That Changed China

Andrew J. Nathan

Essay: A World Safe for Autocracy?

China’s Rise and the Future of Global Politics

Jessica Chen Weiss

Essay: Europe Alone

What Comes After the Transatlantic Alliance

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad

Essay: The Global Economy’s Next Winners

What It Takes to Thrive in the Automation Age

Susan Lund, James Manyika, and Michael Spence

Essay: Africa’s Democratic Moment?

The Five Leaders Who Could Transform the Region

Judd Devermont and Jon Temin

Essay: With Great Demographics Comes Great Power

Why Population Will Drive Geopolitics

Nicholas Eberstadt

Essay: America’s Forgotten Colony

Ending Puerto Rico’s Perpetual Crisis

Antonio Weiss and Brad Setser

Review Essay: China’s Feminist Fight

#MeToo in the Middle Kingdom

Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang

Review Essay: How Should a Liberal Be?

Walter Bagehot and the Politics of Progress

Sebastian Mallaby

Review Essay: The Last War—and the Next?

Learning the Wrong Lessons From Iraq

Jon Finer

Review Essay: Ready for Robots?

How to Think About the Future of AI

Kenneth Neil Cukier

Issue Package: What Happened to the American Century?

What’s Inside

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