Our policy of “strategic ambiguity”—in which neither China nor Taiwan can be sure whether the United States will intervene in a conflict—has outlived its usefulness.

To partner with a predator is to surrender. Some European diplomats are playing a dangerous game.

To understand why Beijing is lying so much about COVID-19, you have to understand the corrupt deal China’s Communist Party has struck with the country’s elites.

The coronavirus crisis provides all sorts of authoritarian temptations—even for democratic governments. Carefully considering human rights in assessing various policy responses can help us see the dangerous red lines.

On Wednesday, May 13, TAI hosted a Zoom discussion with Francis Fukuyama about how the coronavirus might impact our politics. Due to a technical error, we were unable to stream the conversation live; the following is a transcript of the conversation as it occurred.

McKinsey’s former chief economist and a Global Justice Fellow at Yale delve into the COVID-19 data. Part one of a two-part essay on the inequities exposed by the global pandemic.

It’s not solely or even mostly Trump; it’s the EU’s inability to get its act together.

As the virus disrupts comfortable illusions and accelerates historical trends, the United States must lead the free world in shaping a more democratic global order.

From Moscow and Budapest to Brasília and Washington, a network of far-right cranks is attempting to remake the global order. They haven’t gotten very far.

The endless loop of lockdown highlights something we had lost long before coronavirus: our sense of past, present, and future.