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Electoral Reform
The Long Game of Democratic Reform
Larry Diamond

A growing array of reformers are coming to see the logic of “master reform,” the one most likely to break the logjam on all the others: Ranked Choice Voting.

 Published: 2019-04-19 11:32:28
 
Old Habits
Against Visegrád
Dalibor Rohac

Sometimes, old concepts are simply no longer useful.

 Published: 2019-04-16 14:10:15
 
Print & Pixels
The Washington-Hollywood Pact
Martha Bayles

The nation’s capital and its dream factory have long worked together to maximize the export of American films to the rest of the world, on the theory that doing so is both good business and good diplomacy. Is this still the case?

 Published: 2019-04-12 17:12:19
 
representation
Brexit’s Democracy Lesson
Bruce E. Cain

Asking “the people” to do the job of governing, even for an incompetent representative government, is asking for even more trouble.

Published: 2019-04-08 11:32:51
 
The Old Lady at 70
Start Planning NATO’s 100th Birthday
Josef Joffe

Alliances die when they win. So NATO should have gone the way of all flesh when the Soviet Union committed suicide in 1991. Yet it has not only endured, but also expanded. And based on enduring interest, the Alliance will survive Donald Trump, too.

 Published: 2019-04-05 13:27:08
 
Culture & Ideology
Toward a More Discriminating Theory of Discrimination
Richard Thompson Ford

These days, it’s all too easy to conclude that a decision one happens to disagree with must be motivated by invidious prejudice. And it’s easier still when the list of traits someone could “discriminate” against keeps growing and now includes things like “culture” and “ideology.”

 Published: 2019-04-04 14:13:34
 
Taxation & Representation
DC Statehood? There’s a Better Way
Adam Garfinkle

How to give District residents all the rights due to them without the trouble of adding a new state to the union.

 Published: 2019-04-01 11:56:44
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Punishment with a Point: How to Use the Traffic Code to Improve Misdemeanor Justice
Criminal Justice Reform
The criminal justice system imprisons far too many people for petty misdemeanors. A points-based system, not unlike the one built into our traffic code, could change that.
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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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