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The Scowcroft Model

An Appreciation

Robert M. Gates

The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State

For Saudi Arabia and Egypt, a Pretext to Crack Down

Geneive Abdo and Nourhan Elnahla

Messiah Complex

How Brazil Made Bolsonaro

Brian Winter

Conflict With Small Powers Derails U.S. Foreign Policy

The Case for Strategic Discipline

Michael Singh

Current Issue

September/October 2020: The World Trump Made

Travis Dove / The New York Times / Redux

The Democratic Renewal

What It Will Take to Fix U.S. Foreign Policy

Ben Rhodes

Civil Rights International

The Fight Against Racism Has Always Been Global

Keisha N. Blain

The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism

Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic

Thomas J. Bollyky and Chad P. Bown

Giving Up on God

The Global Decline of Religion

Ronald F. Inglehart

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Present at the Disruption

How Trump Unmade U.S. Foreign Policy

Richard Haass

Xi Jinping Is Not Stalin

How a Lazy Historical Analogy Derailed Washington’s China Strategy

Michael McFaul

Nile Be Dammed

Toxic Water Politics Threaten Democracy and Regional Stability

Michael Woldemariam

Spotlight: Coronavirus

Joseph Campbell / Reuters

The Tragedy of Vaccine Nationalism

Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic

Thomas J. Bollyky and Chad P. Bown

The Secret to a Safe Reopening

Why the End of Lockdown Looks So Different Around the World

Josh Michaud and Jen Kates

Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold

Learning From the COVID-19 Failure—Before the Next Outbreak Arrives

Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

The Pandemic’s Toll on Women

COVID-19 Is Gender-Blind, But Not Gender-Neutral

Melinda Gates

Exceptionalism Is Killing Americans

An Insular Political Culture Failed the Test of the Pandemic

Jeremy Konyndyk

The Fragile Republic

American Democracy Has Never Faced So Many Threats All at Once

Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman

The U.S. Has AI Competition All Wrong

Computing Power, Not Data, Is the Secret to Tech Dominance

Ben Buchanan

The Pandemic Depression

The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same

Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart

Editor's Pick

How a Great Power Falls Apart

Decline Is Invisible From the Inside

Charles King

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The Pandemic Hasn’t Killed Populism

After Lockdowns, Demagogues Will Likely Resurge

Nadia Urbinati

There Is No Russian Plot Against America

The Kremlin’s Electoral Interference Is All Madness and No Method

Anna Arutunyan

How Satellites Can Save Arms Control

A Global Noninterference Treaty Would Reduce Nuclear Risks

Michael Markey, Jonathan Pearl, and Benjamin Bahney

Book Reviews

Citizens of the World

Reviewed By Jerrold Seigel

In "The Europeans," Orlando Figes shows how Europe’s cosmopolitan culture developed in the nineteenth century.

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The End of Saudi Arabia’s Ambitions

MBS Must Cut His Losses to Avert Catastrophe

F. Gregory Gause III

Hollywood Is Running Out of Villains

Fear of Authoritarian Regimes Is Pushing the Film Industry to Self-Censor

Kal Raustiala

Is the Worst of COVID-19 Yet to Come?

Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts

This Day in History

August 14, 1935

FDR Signs Social Security Act

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the act as part of his New Deal programs.

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Beware the Guns of August—in Asia

How to Keep U.S.-Chinese Tensions From Sparking a War

Kevin Rudd

A Council of Democracies Can Save Multilateralism

Boris Johnson’s “D-10” Is the Club the World Desperately Needs

Edward Fishman and Siddharth Mohandas

The Mosque, the Dam, and Erdogan’s Widening Culture War

The Linked Fates of Two Cultural Heritage Sites in Turkey

Nick Danforth

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