January/February 2021

Can America Recover?

What’s Inside

The Can-Do Power

America’s Advantage and Biden’s Chance

Samantha Power

The Crisis Opportunity

What It Will Take to Build Back a Better Economy

Jason Furman

To Stop a Pandemic

A Better Approach to Global Health Security

Jennifer Nuzzo

The Reconstruction of America

Justice, Power, and the Civil War’s Unfinished Business

David W. Blight

Monopoly Versus Democracy

How to End a Gilded Age

Zephyr Teachout

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

The Lessons of the New Deal

Meg Jacobs

Cleaning House

Watergate and the Limits of Reform

John A. Lawrence

Las Décadas Perdidas de América Latina

El Costo de la Desigualdad en la Era de COVID-19

Luis Alberto Moreno

The Party That Failed

An Insider Breaks With Beijing

Cai Xia

How to Save Democracy From Technology

Ending Big Tech’s Information Monopoly

Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel

The Arab Uprisings Never Ended

The Enduring Struggle to Remake the Middle East

Marc Lynch

The End of the Wilsonian Era

Why Liberal Internationalism Failed

Walter Russell Mead

Latin America’s Lost Decades

The Toll of Inequality in the Age of COVID-19

Luis Alberto Moreno

Protection Without Protectionism

Getting Industrial Policy Right

Shannon K. O’Neil

The World China Wants

How Power Will—and Won’t—Reshape Chinese Ambitions

Rana Mitter

The Meddlers

Moscow’s and Washington’s Covert Campaigns

Angela Stent

The Spanish Miracle

Democracy’s Triumph Over Tyranny and Corruption

Omar G. Encarnación

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers