August 2, 2020 | View In Browser 

Illustration: Keith Negley

Many observers were declaring the end of American preeminence long before the COVID-19 pandemic. But the crisis has reinforced trends that potentially compromise the United States’ position, from the resurgence of great-power rivalry and the faltering of international institutions to the onset of economic turmoil and domestic unrest. Is a diminished U.S. role in the world inevitable? Or can Washington reinvent global leadership for a new era?

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