Essays

1. The Perils of Isolationism: The World Still Needs America—and America Still Needs the World. --Condoleezza Rice
2. America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future: And They’re Already Here. --Mark A. Milley, Eric Schmidt
3. What Was the Biden Doctrine? Leadership Without Hegemony. --Jessica T. Mathews
4. The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft: A Grand Strategy for a Turbulent World. --Walter Russell Mead
5. The Trouble With Allies: America Needs a Playbook for Difficult Friends. --Richard Haass
6. The Case for a Clean Energy Marshall Plan: How the Fight Against Climate Change Can Renew American Leadership. --Brian Deese
7. How Everything Became National Security: And National Security Became Everything. --Daniel W. Drezner
8. The Crumbling Foundations of American Strength: Knowledge Is Power—and the United States Is Losing It. --Amy Zegart
9. The New Bioweapons: How Synthetic Biology Could Destabilize the World. --Roger Brent, T. Greg McKelvey, Jr., and Jason Matheny
10. China’s Real Economic Crisis: Why Beijing Won’t Give Up on a Failing Model. --Zongyuan Zoe Liu
11. Stopping the Next China Shock: A Collective Strategy for Countering Beijing’s Mercantilism. --Aaron L. Friedberg

Reviews and Responses

12. The Dictator’s Enabler: Searching for the Real Zhou Enlai. --Orville Schell
13. The Autocratic Allure: Why the Far Right Embraces Foreign Tyrants. --Beverly Gage
14. Sapiens in the Mist. --What the Fight About Humanity’s Origins Reveals About Its Future. --Priya Satia

Letters
15. Can Hamas Be Left to Defeat Itself? Debating the Endgame in Gaza. --Ophir Falk; Audrey Kurth Cronin