The Best of 2019
The Longest Wars
Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously, negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. But he began and ended his career struggling with how to resolve two American wars: first in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan.
The Self-Destruction of American Power
American hegemony’s death was self-inflicted, the result of Washington’s bad habits and bad behavior.
A New Americanism
Historians’ failure to tell a common American national story has ceded the field to charlatans offering their own twisted versions—and allowed a dangerous strain of American nationalism to take hold.