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A Hinge in History?
Larry Diamond

We live in perilous times. A domestic constitutional crisis that looks ever-more likely would unfold in a global context of profound turbulence and instability.

 Published: 2019-01-18 13:03:36
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Expert in Adversity
Martha Bayles

The heroic actions, and difficult editorial decisions, undertaken by the Bosnian newspaper Oslobođenje during the siege of Sarajevo illustrate an important truth: Objectivity is not neutrality.

Published: 2019-01-17 17:12:48
 
The Illiberal Challenge
Making Up Monsters to Destroy
Damir Marusic

Robert Kagan’s The Jungle Grows Back might be one of the most revealing foreign policy books of 2018. Its greatest value isn’t in its prescriptions, however, but rather in the fact that it stumbles upon a deeper truth about our current moment.

Published: 2019-01-15 17:10:41
 
Us and Them
The Vices of Nationalism
Dalibor Rohac

“Conservative democracy” is no substitute for multilateralism.

Published: 2019-01-11 13:06:26
 
What, Me Worry?
How Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Defies America’s Best Interests
Josef Joffe

At half-time, Donald Trump has demolished a lot and rebuilt nothing. Even his short-term foreign policy successes have proven brittle. And in the longer term, his not-so-grand strategy—aka “America First”—may well prove costly, as it always has for America.

 Published: 2019-01-04 11:36:12
 
Failure to Launch
The EU Can’t Fulfill Its Purpose
Jakub Grygiel

In a competitive world, with antagonistic external powers and growing internal imbalances, the dream is failing.

 Published: 2018-12-30 09:00:21
 
To Err Is Human
To Predict, Not So Divine
Jeffrey Gedmin

Our predictions about politics and world affairs rarely seem to work out—but there are good reasons to keep trying.

 Published: 2018-12-29 10:07:28
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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
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Another year, another round of prognostication. TAI editors speculate about what 2019 has in store.

Published: Jan 04, 2019
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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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