A New Sultan in Town
Putin Tames Turkey?

It’s not Turkey’s economic future but its present politics that weighs most heavily on Erdogan. And Putin can lighten or increase his burden at will.

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Money Matters
Cleaning Up the Financial World

Senator Carl Levin talks to TAI about his legacy and current trends.

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Democracy in Action
The Problem with Brexit Is the Leaders, Not the Voters

Elites have pushed policies that go against the basic sense of identity, security, common sense, and morality of many citizens.

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Prayer and Work
On Your Knees

Everybody prays, whether they know it or not.

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A Debate
Brexit: Good for the United States?

British citizens will be voting on June 23 on a question that will affect not just their political futures and Europe’s, but America’s as well.

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Government
The Greatness of Russia

In all areas of human endeavor, perhaps, save one.

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Economic History
The End of a Dream?

America’s great age of growth is over and discontentment drives our politics. Yet there’s hope of modest economic advances, if only we clear the way.

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Continental Divides
Europe Gets Religion, Again

What Pope Francis, Prince Charles, Patriarch Bartholomew, Mother Teresa, Patriarch Kirill, and the next President of the United States have in common.

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Revisionism
In Putin’s Russia, History Is Subversive

Putin is re-writing the past to justify authoritarianism in the present.

Metropolitan Opera
Un Bel Di
Opera at a Distance

Overwhelmed by Puccini’s magnificent Madama Butterfly, from 700 miles away.

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