March/April 2020

Come Home, America?

What’s Inside

The Price of Primacy

Why America Shouldn’t Dominate the World

Stephen Wertheim

The Folly of Retrenchment

Why America Can’t Withdraw From the World

Thomas Wright

The New Spheres of Influence

Sharing the Globe With Other Great Powers

Graham Allison

Reality Check

American Power in an Age of Constraints

Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

Learning to Live With Despots

The Limits of Democracy Promotion

Stephen D. Krasner

Getting to Less

The Truth About Defense Spending

Kathleen Hicks

Why America Must Lead Again

Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

How the Good War Went Bad

America’s Slow-Motion Failure in Afghanistan

Carter Malkasian

The Epidemic of Despair

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

Anne Case and Angus Deaton

The Digital Dictators

How Technology Strengthens Autocracy

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright

Too Big to Prevail

The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

Ganesh Sitaraman

Saving America’s Alliances

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

Mira Rapp-Hooper

Mean Streets

The Global Traffic Death Crisis

Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

The Dismal Kingdom

Do Economists Have Too Much Power?

Paul Romer

The Wily Country

Understanding Putin’s Russia

Michael Kimmage

Recent Books

Short capsule reviews from Foreign Affairs’ panel of regular reviewers