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• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  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 …

• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  Go Abroad, Young American

  foreignaffairs.com - Dinyar Patel

  After the 9/11 attacks, a bipartisan assemblage of U.S. lawmakers came to the conclusion that sending more American students to study abroad was a …

• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  A Conversation With Hillary Clinton

  foreignaffairs.com - Foreign Affairs

  Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, joins us to discuss how the United States can confront today’s national security challenges, …

• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  The Penitent Pope

  foreignaffairs.com - Victor Gaetan

  Pope Francis was determined to travel to Iraq this month despite security risks and a recent surge of COVID-19 cases in the country. When some …

• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  The Real Guardrails of Democracy Are Its Citizens

  foreignaffairs.com - Jonathan Schlefer

  “We the people” have gotten a bad reputation in the annals of democratic theory. Thinkers from Alexander Hamilton to Alexis de Tocqueville have …

• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  Intelligence Isn’t Just for Government Anymore

  foreignaffairs.com - Amy Zegart

  Foreign election interference must be bad if spy agencies are making public service announcements. Two weeks ago, Director of National Intelligence …

• Foreign Affairs Magazine

  The Militarization of U.S. Politics

  foreignaffairs.com - Aila M. Matanock and Paul Staniland

  Over the last four years, U.S. President Donald Trump has shown more sympathy for far-right groups, many of them armed, than any president in recent …

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  The Fragile Republic

  foreignaffairs.com - Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman

  When the U.S. president used his power to target immigrants, the press, and his political opponents, the sheer overreach of his actions shocked many …