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Last Updated 12/22/21

The Best of 2021

Our Editors’ Top Picks From Print and Web

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20 Articles

Table of Contents

I

Best of Print

January/February 2021

January/February 2021

The Party That Failed

An Insider Breaks With Beijing

March/April 2021

March/April 2021

Accomplice to Carnage

How America Enables War in Yemen

Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper

The Price of Nostalgia

America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat

July/August 2021

July/August 2021

The Race to Consolidate Power and Stave Off Disaster

Jude Blanchette

July/August 2021

July/August 2021

The Taiwan Temptation

Why Beijing Might Resort to Force

Oriana Skylar Mastro

July/August 2021

July/August 2021

The Forever Virus

A Strategy for the Long Fight Against COVID-19

Larry Brilliant, Lisa Danzig, Karen Oppenheimer, Agastya Mondal, Rick Bright, and W. Ian Lipkin

July/August 2021

July/August 2021

Myanmar’s Coming Revolution

What Will Emerge From Collapse?

September/October 2021

September/October 2021

Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success

Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected

November/December 2021

November/December 2021

Containment Beyond the Cold War

How Washington Lost the Post-Soviet Peace

November/December 2021

November/December 2021

The Kremlin’s Strange Victory

How Putin Exploits American Dysfunction and Fuels American Decline

II

Best of Web

February 10, 2021

February 10, 2021

The Roots of Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang

China’s Imperial Past Hangs Over the Uyghurs

Sean R. Roberts

China Is Not Ten Feet Tall

How Alarmism Undermines American Strategy

The Pandemic That Won’t End

COVID-19 Variants and the Peril of Vaccine Inequity

Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

America Can—and Should—Vaccinate the World

The Case for an All-Out Global Approach to Ending the Pandemic

Helene Gayle, Gordon LaForge, and Anne-Marie Slaughter

China’s Inconvenient Truth

Official Triumphalism Conceals Societal Fragmentation

Elizabeth Economy

America Is Back—but for How Long?

Political Polarization and the End of U.S. Credibility

A World Without American Democracy?

The Global Consequences of the United States’ Democratic Backsliding

September 3, 2021

September 3, 2021

Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America

How Self-Dealing Elites Failed in Both Countries

September 27, 2021

September 27, 2021

Don’t Sink the Nuclear Submarine Deal

The Benefits of AUKUS Outweigh the Proliferation Risks

Caitlin Talmadge

November 5, 2021

November 5, 2021

Can Ethiopia Survive?

What Might Happen If Abiy Ahmed Falls

Nic Cheeseman and Yohannes Woldemariam

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