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Coalition Building
Tactical Illusions and Split 
Outcomes

Despite all the talk of partisan gerrymandering and electoral unfairness, the number one priority for both parties should be building broad, sustainable coalitions.

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Identity Crisis
Immigration and the Logic of Liberalism

A new book on immigration claims to offer an economic argument against open borders. Instead, it offers a cultural argument against modern liberalism.

Compelled or Cajoled?
The Criminal Responsibility of Opioid Addicts

Many have argued that opioid addicts have no meaningful choice about whether to use and so cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions. This is simply not true.

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New Left 2.0
The Progressivism Pendulum

The Democratic Party has swung too far toward the idealism and activism of the New Left. To find success beyond the midterms, Democrats should look to the hard-headed politics of an older progressivism.

A Conversation With Heather Mac Donald
“More Studying and Less Sex. That Is Not Something to Be Regretted.”

TAI recently sat down with Heather Mac Donald to talk about her new book The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. We discussed her views on identity politics and affirmative action, Donald Trump and deconstruction—and her views on campus romance. The following transcript has been edited for clarity.

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Working It Out
The Virtue of Apprenticeship

An “academics only” approach to skill development has failed; it’s time to consider apprenticeship programs as well.

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Confirmation Blues
The Presumption of Credence

In the Kavanaugh controversy, both outcomes were guaranteed to enrage half the country—but only one avoided a system-smashing incentive structure.

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Print & Pixels
Democracy’s Ugly Brother

The shrillness, vulgarity, and shamelessness on display in the Kavanaugh spectacle will only get worse—because it is in the self-interest of our bottom-line-obsessed media to let it get worse.

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Democratic Dysfunction
Brazil on the Brink

Jair Bolsonaro will not be the cause of democratic decay in Brazil. He’s better understood as a symptom of it.

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law and order
Immigration, Polarization, and Identity Theft Fraud

Could dealing with the plague of identity theft fraud become a basis for a new, centrist effort at immigration reform?

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