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Game Theory 101
Will Trump Bluff His Way to Reelection?
Bruce E. Cain

From a purely electoral perspective, a visible effort to deliver on campaign promises usually beats not trying, and winning even minor concessions is typically better than ending up with nothing at all.

 Published: 2019-06-14 11:07:54
 
Politics Disrupted
Crashing the Parties
Josef Joffe

In Europe, the ancien régime of the moderate Right and Left is falling prey to the disruptors—mainly rightwing populists, but also non-threatening environmentalists like the surging German Greens who appeal to the center.

 Published: 2019-06-12 14:54:50
 
The New Public Square
How (Not) to Regulate the Internet
Peter Pomerantsev

We should be more focused on protecting user rights than on policing content itself.

 Published: 2019-06-10 14:01:57
 
An Editor’s Frustrations
In Search of an Advertising Tax
Adam Garfinkle

Trying to get a competent author to examine the idea of taxing advertising turned out to be an exercise in waiting for Godot.

 Published: 2019-06-06 18:51:45
 
Deradicalization
In Support of David Frenchism
Dalibor Rohac

Sohrab Ahmari’s worldview is completely incompatible with basic tenets of liberalism.

 Published: 2019-06-04 14:30:26
 
Green New Zeal
The European Slide Toward Irrelevance
Jakub Grygiel

The EU elections confirmed what has already been evident for some time: Europe’s geopolitical impotence.

 Published: 2019-06-03 14:44:46
 
Print & Pixels
Huawei, Hollywood, and the Battle for 5G
Martha Bayles

Before Beijing tried to dominate our wireless networks, it succeeded in dominating our film industry. That’s a saga in urgent need of telling.

 Published: 2019-05-29 14:11:24
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Howard Hawks’s The Thing and Our Echo Chamber Age
Vegetative Vampires
In the 1951 classic, an otherworldly being feeds on all-too-human fears—and shows how bonds can fragment in a climate of paranoia and distrust.
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Innovation and Disruption
Universal Basic Income: Does It Work?
Aviezer Tucker
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The View from Islamabad
Pakistan: Bad Moon Rising
Ziad Zafar
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The Ivan Golunov Affair
The Summer of Russia’s Discontent?
Karina Orlova
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The Great Awokening
The Rise of Progressive Occultism
Tara Isabella Burton
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American Prophet
Frederick Douglass Is Not Dead!
Allis Radosh
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History Strikes Back
The Death of the Two-State Solution
Damir Marusic
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The Middle East & Beyond
Jewcentricity Redux
Ilhan Omar and the Jews

Knowingly or not, Ilhan Omar is acting like a designated provocateur, playing her role in a shrewd effort to seize control of the Democratic Party. But her rhetoric has deep roots in American politics.

 Published: Mar 08, 2019
Adam Garfinkle
The Middle East & Beyond
Ironic Iconography
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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