Contra Kleptocracy
Getting a Grip on Global Financial Infrastructure

To fight kleptocracy, it’s time to make the privately-run plumbing of the global financial system more accountable to international institutions.

Belarus on the Boil
The Time to Act is Now

The West needs to unambiguously take a stand on Belarus before September 10.

The Global Tech Wars
Huawei Is Just The First Battle

A global Manhattan Project to create an ethical future is certainly a tall order, but the status quo is not an option.

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Revolutionizing the New Global Order
The Godfather Wars

Don Vito Corleone, Don Licio Lucchesi, Hyman Roth, and the coming international realignment.

Environmentalism
Apocalypse Now?

Sane policymaking always grapples with trade-offs. Environmental policymaking should be no different.

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All That Jazz
Yardbird and Fat Girl

A jazz partnership for the ages, in the space of an evening.

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A Hidden Life
Portrait of an Ordinary Nazi

Daniel Lee’s new book about his surprise discovery of an SS officer’s hidden files gives us a rare look into the lives of the countless bureaucratic enablers who kept the Nazi machine running.

Philipp Foltz, Pericles’ Funeral Oration
The Crisis of Liberalism
Against Democratic Defeatism

David Stasavage’s new global history of democracy argues that it is neither a Western invention nor as fragile as today’s cynics think.

Portraits of Leadership
Why America Liked Ike

The contrast between President Eisenhower and the current occupant of the White House is stark. But in truth, few political figures since the beginning of the 1960s have conducted themselves in the dignified way Ike did.

TAI Virtual Conversations
Dubai and Global Illicit Financial Flows

Earlier today, TAI Editor-at-Large Ben Judah led a conversation with Jodi Vittori, Lakshmi Kumar, Karen Greenaway, and Matthew T. Page, whose hard-hitting report on global corruption was recently published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Read the report here, grab a coffee, and watch the discussion!

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