president obama, one year on

FDR, LBJ or Jimmy Carter? Francis Fukuyama

Consider Lincoln Walter Russell Mead

Solid and Promising Jessica Tuchman Mathews

The Open Hand, Slapped Richard Perle

A Lack of Leadership Ronald Steel

Good Start, Long Road Joseph S. Nye

The Perils of Wishful Thinking Robert Kagan

The Right Grand Strategy G. John Ikenberry

Who Is This Guy? Josef Joffe

Policy Isn't Just Analysis Leslie H. Gelb

A Mixed Picture William A. Galston

Mistaken Assumptions Michael Barone

Not Much Change Anne Applebaum

Big Bite, Tough Chew Will Marshall

No Breakthrough Steve Clemons

Three More Years Stephen D. Krasner

money, power & policy

Foreign Policy in an Age of Austerity Brent Scowcroft
A conversation with Brent Scowcroft.

A Most Valuable Idea William Rosen
The history of patent law shows its great and enduring power.

The Iran-Venezuela Axis of Scam Robert M. Morgenthau
Following the money reveals the growing dangers of an unlikely partnership.

nation-building in america

Big Problem, Wrong Conversation Peter S. Heller & Barbara Opper
Our recent health care debate has failed to tackle the real challenges.

Grow Up Robert L. Strauss
A veteran Peace Corps hand volunteers to help, again.

endgame for korea

Hard Containment Mitchell B. Reiss

Patience and Resolve Wang Jisi

Caution and Humility James A. Kelly

Let's Make a Deal Leon V. Sigal

Robust Engagement Narushige Michishita

Say the U-word Victor Cha

latin landscapes

Know Thyself Osvaldo Hurtado
A former President of Ecuador diagnoses Latin America’s real ailment.

Ecuador in the Middle Nicole M. Bibbins Sedaca
A letter from an expat describes a beautiful, baffling country.

Fresh Start or False Start? Abraham F. Lowenthal
The Administration has made a good beginning in recasting Western Hemisphere affairs.

reviews

Who Do You Love? David Kirby
Phillip Roth and Ian McEwan on love, lust and loss.

The Accidental Narcissists Asher Susser
Two new books ostensibly about Israel really aren’t.

You Can Keep a Good Man Down Ryan Cole
Warren G. Harding may have been a bounder, but he was a talented one.

Heels and Heroes John G. Rodwan, Jr.
Two films show the fight in Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.

The Organic Man David Wiesenberg
Meet Louis Bromfield, godfather of the organic farming movement.

notes & letters

What, Me Worry? Austin Long
Pakistan has lots of problems, but jihadi violence isn’t the biggest one.

Skin-Deep Democracy Misha Mintz-Roth
Kenya, two years after the bleeding.

winter note

Just Imagine Niall Ferguson