ESSAYS
MARK
MAKELA/ THENEW
YORK
TIMES/ REDUXWhy America Must Lead Again
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 64How the Good War Went Bad
Carter Malkasian 77The Epidemic o Despair
Anne Case and Angus Deaton 92The Digital Dictators
Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz, and
Joseph Wright 103Too Big to Prevail
Ganesh Sitaraman 116Saving America’s Alliances
Mira Rapp-Hooper 127Mean Streets
Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow 141In the conduct
of foreign policy,
and especially
in times of crisis,
a nation’s word
is its most
valuable asset.
–Joseph Biden10_Essay_div_Blues.indd 63 1/20/20 7:16 PM