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Russia and the West
How Did It Come to This?

Four roots of the current crisis in Western relations with Russia.

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2017
Religion, Class, and the Evangelical Vote

A hypothesis: Evangelicals who voted for Trump fall into two groups—those who are primarily motivated by the moral positions of their faith, and those who bitterly resent the contempt shown them by elites.

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2017
The Birth of a Disunited States of America?

Verteran “U.S. watchers” in China received a rude awakening to a divided America on the morning of November 9.

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Europe's Future
Kicking Off the 2017 French Presidential Election

The critically important primaries of the Center-Right begin this Sunday, November 20.

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Russia and the West
Putinalia as Deceit and Self-Deceit

Putinalia—the study of Vladimir Putin—can be exciting, and it can be useful…sometimes. But if one hopes to understand Russia, one has to look much deeper.

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What Just Happened?
Democracy for an Age of Distrust

Americans now have an historic opportunity to reimagine government. The key is to abandon the centralized operating philosophy which, in thousand-page rulebooks, purports to tell everybody how to do everything. We need to re-empower human agency at all levels of society.

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2017
A New American Foreign Policy?

President Trump could upend the role the U.S. has played in international affairs since World War II.

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Grand Strategy
The Pretty Successful Superpower

American grand strategy in the post-Cold War era.

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vetocracy
Too Much Law and Too Little Infrastructure

The United States lags behind other Western countries in infrastructure building because we have a system ruled by vetoes.

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Crackdown in Turkey
Erdogan Ups the Ante

Erdogan’s authoritarian surge has now kicked into overdrive with the arrests of opposition members of parliament.

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