Comment: The Folly of Retrenchment

Why America Can’t Withdraw From the World

Thomas Wright

Comment: The Price of Primacy

Why America Shouldn’t Dominate the World

Stephen Wertheim

Essay: The New Spheres of Influence

Sharing the Globe With Other Great Powers

Graham Allison

Comment: Reality Check

American Power in an Age of Constraints

Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

Comment: Learning to Live With Despots

The Limits of Democracy Promotion

Stephen D. Krasner

Comment: Getting to Less

The Truth About Defense Spending

Kathleen Hicks

Essay: Why America Must Lead Again

Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Essay: How the Good War Went Bad

America’s Slow-Motion Failure in Afghanistan

Carter Malkasian

Essay: The Epidemic of Despair

Will America’s Mortality Crisis Spread to the Rest of the World?

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

Essay: The Digital Dictators

How Technology Strengthens Autocracy

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright

Essay: Too Big to Prevail

The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

Ganesh Sitaraman

Essay: Saving America’s Alliances

The United States Still Needs the System That Put It on Top

Mira Rapp-Hooper

Essay: Mean Streets

The Global Traffic Death Crisis

Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

Review Essay: The Dismal Kingdom

Do Economists Have Too Much Power?

Paul Romer

Review Essay: The Wily Country

Understanding Putin’s Russia

Michael Kimmage

Issue Package: Come Home, America?

What’s Inside

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