(Art Institute of Chicago)
Countering Corruption
America’s Anti-Kleptocracy Breakthrough

There is unprecedented wind in U.S. anti-kleptocracy sails, thanks to legislation making its way through Congress. America’s reign as a haven for offshore wealth may finally be coming to an end.

Anglo-American Relations
The Protracted Handover

The United States and Great Britain ultimately traded places after WWII. But the hand-off was much messier than is often acknowledged.

Print & Pixels
Hip Van Winkle Goes to Woodstock

An improbable tale of youth, age, and cultural change in the Catskills, with apologies to Washington Irving.

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Forests and Fatwas
Islam, Terrorism, and Environmental Jihad

The Islamic world is currently engaged in a debate over climate change: not about whether it’s happening, but about whether militants or reformists are best equipped to stop it.

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Our Nationalist Moment
National Conservatism: A Guide for the Perplexed

An attempt to put conservatism on firmer intellectual footing in the Age of Trump has led to some strange—and shaky—alliances.

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Our Nationalist Moment
Twelve Theses on Nationalism

Nationalism rightly understood means that no nation is an island, and that in the long run the wellbeing of one’s nation cannot be decoupled from the fate of others.

Crypto-Kleptocracy
Closing Today’s Illicit Finance Loopholes

America has bolted the front door to illicit financial activity but left the back door wide open.

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Thousand-Word Pictures
The Quintessence of Trumpism

A recent gaffe illustrates the dark core of Donald Trump.

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Political Psychology
Of Killers and Conspiracies

How the paranoid fringe has gone mainstream.

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Book Club
What Germans Are Reading

The land of Goethe is fond of fiction, of course, which makes up 31.9 percent of total book sales. But it is non-fiction that generates the most conversation—and the most controversy.

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