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  Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

  foreignaffairs.com - Meg Jacobs

  Like Franklin Roosevelt, the new Democratic president faces a choice between the incremental and the bold.

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  Cleaning House

  foreignaffairs.com - John A. Lawrence

  For reformers hoping to fight corruption and executive overreach, the lesson of the Watergate era is clear: proceed with caution.

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  Monopoly Versus Democracy

  foreignaffairs.com - Zephyr Teachout

  The limited victories of Gilded Age reform movements show that the fight against inequality is primarily a fight against monopoly power.

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  The End of the Wilsonian Era

  foreignaffairs.com - Walter Russell Mead

  Why liberal internationalism failed.

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  The Reconstruction of America

  foreignaffairs.com - David W. Blight

  Today, many core questions of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era remain unresolved.

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  The Other Carter Doctrine

  foreignaffairs.com - Ray Takeyh

  During 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. …

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  The Diplomat as Gardener

  foreignaffairs.com - Nicholas Burns

  In July 1988, during his final year as secretary of state, George Shultz embarked on an eight-country, three-week tour of Asia. No crisis or urgent …

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  The Fulbright Paradox

  foreignaffairs.com - Charles King

  It was an act of political bravery heard around Washington, if not around the world. By January 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Permanent …

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  The Founders’ Plague—and Ours

  foreignaffairs.com - Stephen Fried

  The quick development of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines has been one of the great triumphs in U.S. medical history. Nobody would have been more …