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Trade Imbalances
Replacing NAFTA

NAFTA should be reconstituted and replaced. The trick is how to deepen U.S.-Canadian integration without leaving Mexico completely out in the cold.

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High Anxiety
What Happened, Indeed

How Putin’s domestic political worries fuel Russian interference in U.S. politics.

Death and Taxes
Ladies and Gentlemen, Take Your Places

The global tax race to the bottom is about to begin.

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Moral Panics
A Liberal Defense of Populism

The Western elite’s populism-as-fascism meme is neither accurate nor helpful.

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The Middle East
Meanwhile in Jerusalem

Five reasons the Palestinian public has been relatively quiet so far in reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem announcement.

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Eurosion
Don’t Sweat Institutions, Fix Relationships

Europe is running out of time to overcome its conceptual inertia.

Checks and Balances
Liberal Democracy Is Stronger Than Trump’s Populism

Why Trump isn’t the threat to America’s liberal institutions that many fear.

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Party Politics
When “Top-Two” Means “Only One”

Could open primaries help elevate a new breed of political moderates? California’s experience suggests otherwise.

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Moral Panics
The Warlock Hunt

The #MeToo moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men.

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Border Skirmish
The Future of Northern Ireland: Brexit and EU Borders

The United Kingdom’s Leave vote is posing enormous, possibly intractable problems for both Northern Ireland and the Republic.

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