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Ranked-Choice Voting
A Victory for Democratic Reform

The voters of Maine rejected political cynicism on Tuesday and endorsed one of the most promising reforms to our politics.

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Pipeline Politics
Why Nord Stream 2 Will Not Be Built

Don’t be fooled by recent approvals: U.S sanctions and a weakening European consensus make the construction of Gazprom’s controversial pipeline less likely than ever.

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America's Institutional Health
The Medicalization of the Police

The police have become first responders to the most widespread and fastest-growing drug crisis in American history: the opioid epidemic.

Migration and Its Discontents
The Impacts of Immigration: Europe vs. America

The consequences of immigration will be harsher, and the problems to which it gives rise less manageable, in the European Union than in the United States.

Intent to Deceive
The Russian Myth Machine

Russian political analysts are especially good at deception—of themselves as well as others. But why are Western experts so eager to be deceived?

The SCOTUS Cakeshop Judgment
Anti-Discrimination Eats Itself

The Court’s latest case shows how overly broad conceptions of civil rights protections have turned important laws against themselves, like an overactive immune system that consumes its host.

Unintended Consequences
The Great Sanctions Split

Whether by mistake or design, Western sanctions have created both winners and losers in Russia, setting up an inter-elite competition that Putin may find hard to control.

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Against the Mafia State
Grinda’s War

Who is the Spanish prosecutor fighting the Russian mafia state?

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Department of Bad Ideas
Do Not Revive the G-8 or Invite Putin to DC

Putin has done nothing—repeat nothing—to warrant a softer approach from the West.

What Philip Wrought
From Zuckerman to Zuckerberg: The Legacy of Philip Roth

How might we do the memory of the dearly departed writer justice?

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