The central claim of the magazine’s first-ever essay—that a good foreign policy demands deep, open, and broad debate—may no longer seem as striking as it did in September 1922. Yet all we do is meant to fulfill that commitment, one as vital now as it was 100 years ago.
The magazine marks a century.
Surviving the era of catastrophic risk.
A foreign policy for a world in crisis.
U.S. foreign policy and the perilous logic of zero-sum competition.
Hubris and paranoia threaten China’s future.
Distortions about the past feed delusions about the future.
The war between democracy and nihilism.
Limiting great-power rivalry in an anarchic world.
Race and the American century.
How AI distorts decision-making and makes dictators more dangerous.
America can’t shrink from the fight for freedom.
Federalism is remaking U.S. democracy and foreign policy.