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Democracy Watch
The Long Freedom Slump
Larry Diamond

The good news is that democracy is not declining, at least in the aggregate. The bad news is that developing countries have taken a turn for the worse.

 Published: 2019-02-15 14:10:43
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More Ballast, Please
Martha Bayles

Rounding out the politically correct narrative about blackface.

 Published: 2019-02-13 11:42:26
 
The Character Question
Blackface, Call Out Culture, and the Evolution of Norms
Richard Thompson Ford

Blackface in the 1980s might reflect the cavalier, ill-considered racism that was pretty much in the water at the time; today it would undoubtedly reflect a belligerent assertion of white supremacy. The same behavior does not always correspond to the same motives or presuppositions.

 Published: 2019-02-11 12:36:31
 
Kleptocracy in America
Why the Robert Mueller Fandom Misses the Point
Ben Judah

Liberal hero worship misses that it is not just bad people, but a bad system that is breeding collusion between American elites and the world’s kleptocrats.

Published: 2019-02-07 12:07:21
 
Against Chicken Little
Is It Really RIP for the LIO?
Josef Joffe

Lamenting the “collapse” or “end” of the Liberal International Order has grown into a cottage industry of pundits and professors. But is the LIO really dying?

 Published: 2019-02-06 11:08:46
 
We the People
Even the Easy Parts Are Hard
Adam Garfinkle

A normal, sane legislature could fix Social Security forever and end government shutdowns in a single day. But our two-party monopoly Congress is neither normal nor sane.

 Published: 2019-02-01 11:15:44
 
Balancing Act
As the EU Loses Steam, NATO Gains In Importance
Jakub Grygiel

Europeans are wrong to be nervous about America’s commitment to NATO. But neither should they be complacent.

 Published: 2019-01-30 13:22:31
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The EU May Have Just Put an End to Russia’s Pipeline Project
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The Crisis of Modern Science
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The Tourists’ Puzzlement

How did a statue of Andrew Jackson end up at the center of Lafayette Park? There is an answer, but a story goes with it.

 Published: Jan 14, 2019
The Peanut Gallery
2019 Predictions

Another year, another round of prognostication. TAI editors speculate about what 2019 has in store.

Published: Jan 04, 2019
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Context Matters
The Left’s Case Against Birthright Citizenship

The view that “none of us deserve citizenship” is incoherent because it invokes the horrors of statelessness to make what is essentially an anti-statist argument.

 Published: Dec 23, 2018
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