Foreign Affairs MagazineDesperate Times, Desperate Measuresforeignaffairs.com - Meg JacobsLike Franklin Roosevelt, the new Democratic president faces a choice between the incremental and the bold.
Foreign Affairs MagazineCleaning Houseforeignaffairs.com - John A. LawrenceFor reformers hoping to fight corruption and executive overreach, the lesson of the Watergate era is clear: proceed with caution.
Foreign Affairs MagazineMonopoly Versus Democracyforeignaffairs.com - Zephyr TeachoutThe limited victories of Gilded Age reform movements show that the fight against inequality is primarily a fight against monopoly power.
Foreign Affairs MagazineThe End of the Wilsonian Eraforeignaffairs.com - Walter Russell MeadWhy liberal internationalism failed.
Foreign Affairs MagazineThe Reconstruction of Americaforeignaffairs.com - David W. BlightToday, many core questions of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era remain unresolved.
Foreign Affairs MagazineThe Other Carter Doctrineforeignaffairs.com - Ray TakeyhDuring the 1980 U.S. presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan often joked that Jimmy Carter came to him in a dream and asked him why he wanted his job. …