Comment: The Dream Palace of the Americans

Why Ceding Land Will Not Bring Peace

Michael S. Doran

Comment: There Will Be a One-State Solution

But What Kind of State Will It Be?

Yousef Munayyer

Comment: America’s Great Satan

The 40-Year Obsession With Iran

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

Comment: The Middle East’s Lost Decades

Development, Dissent, and the Future of the Arab World

Maha Yahya

Comment: The Unwanted Wars

Why the Middle East Is More Combustible Than Ever

Robert Malley

Essay: War Is Not Over

What the Optimists Get Wrong About Conflict

Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast

Essay: The Nonintervention Delusion

What War Is Good For

Richard Fontaine

Comment: The Tunisia Model

Lessons From a New Arab Democracy

Sarah E. Yerkes

Essay: The Unwinnable Trade War

Everyone Loses in the U.S.-Chinese Clash—but Especially Americans

Weijian Shan

Essay: The Progressive Case Against Protectionism

How Trade and Immigration Help American Workers

Kimberly Clausing

Essay: Nowhere to Go

How Governments in the Americas Are Bungling the Migration Crisis

Alexander Betts

Essay: Let Russia Be Russia

The Case for a More Pragmatic Approach to Moscow

Thomas Graham

Essay: Beyond Great Forces

How Individuals Still Shape History

Daniel Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack

Review Essay: Obama’s Idealists

American Power in Theory and Practice

Peter Beinart

Review Essay: How a Caliphate Ends

On the Frontline of the Fight Against ISIS

Anne Barnard

Review Essay: What Is White America?

The Identity Politics of the Majority

Nell Irvin Painter

Review Essay: The Virtue of Monopoly

Why the Stock Market Stopped Working

Felix Salmon

Review Essay: The New Masters of the Universe

Big Tech and the Business of Surveillance

Paul Starr

Issue Package: Trump’s Middle East

What’s Inside

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Comment: Disaster in the Desert

Why Trump’s Middle East Plan Can’t Work

Martin Indyk