January/February 2021
January/February 2021
The Party That Failed
An Insider Breaks With Beijing
Cai Xia
December 2021
The Best of 2021
Our Editors’ Top Picks From Print and Web
20 Articles
20 Articles
Table of Contents
March/April 2021
March/April 2021
Accomplice to Carnage
How America Enables War in Yemen
Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper
May/June 2021
May/June 2021
The Price of Nostalgia
America’s Self-Defeating Economic Retreat
Adam S. Posen
July/August 2021
July/August 2021
Xi’s Gamble
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?
Thant Myint-U
September/October 2021
September/October 2021
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success
Al Qaeda Changed the World—but Not in the Way It Expected
Nelly Lahoud
November/December 2021
November/December 2021
Containment Beyond the Cold War
How Washington Lost the Post-Soviet Peace
M. E. Sarotte
November/December 2021
November/December 2021
The Kremlin’s Strange Victory
How Putin Exploits American Dysfunction and Fuels American Decline
Fiona Hill
February 10, 2021
February 10, 2021
The Roots of Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang
China’s Imperial Past Hangs Over the Uyghurs
Sean R. Roberts
March 3, 2021
March 3, 2021
China Is Not Ten Feet Tall
How Alarmism Undermines American Strategy
Ryan Hass
March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021
The Pandemic That Won’t End
COVID-19 Variants and the Peril of Vaccine Inequity
Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
March 19, 2021
March 19, 2021
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
May 28, 2021
May 28, 2021
China’s Inconvenient Truth
Official Triumphalism Conceals Societal Fragmentation
Elizabeth Economy
June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
America Is Back—but for How Long?
Political Polarization and the End of U.S. Credibility
Rachel Myrick
July 2, 2021
July 2, 2021
A World Without American Democracy?
The Global Consequences of the United States’ Democratic Backsliding
Larry Diamond
September 3, 2021
September 3, 2021
Afghanistan’s Corruption Was Made in America
How Self-Dealing Elites Failed in Both Countries
Sarah Chayes
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
