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TAI Conversations
Aiding Refugees in an Age of Impunity

The CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) talks with Peter Skerry and Jeffrey Gedmin about leading a humanitarian organization in a time of pandemic, how polarization affects the debate over immigrants and refugees, and why it’s wrong to view China through a Cold War lens.

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Einstein in Bohemia
All Roads Lead from Prague

A new book by Michael Gordin shows how 16 months in Prague formed a young Albert Einstein—and the shape of science, politics, and intellectual history to come.

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Nord Stream 2
Don’t Let Putin’s Pipe Dreams Become Reality

With the world distracted by pandemic, Putin is seeking to circumvent U.S. sanctions and give Nord Stream 2 a new lease on life. We should sanction those enabling him—starting with Gerhard Schröder.

(Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Last Dance
Odysseus on the Basketball Court

ESPN’s stylish new Michael Jordan series is more than a basketball documentary—and it leaves its cinematic competition in the dust.

(DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)
Earthquake and Aftershocks
The Looming Crisis in Civil-Military Relations

Secretary Mattis and other retired officers have every reason to speak out against the President. Their decision to do so, however, will reverberate well past Trump’s time.

Photo by Rebecca Wilcox, Purdue University
TAI Conversations
Deaths of Despair and a Nation in Crisis

The Princeton economists behind the “deaths of despair” thesis—Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton—talk with Irwin Stelzer and Jeffrey Gedmin about their new book, the flaws of our economic and health care systems, and whether our national crisis could spur needed reforms.

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Don't Reward Aggression
No Time to Go Soft on Putin

Amid pandemic and unrest, the President wants to reward Vladimir Putin with G-7 membership and a visit to Washington. We should be advancing his expiration date.

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Streaming Shakespeare
All the Screen’s a Stage

How does a repertory theater that prioritizes direct audience engagement navigate a transition online? I attended one of the American Shakespeare Center’s online workshops to find out.

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TAI Conversations
“You Can’t Be Systemic Rivals on Monday and Then Go Back to Partnering for the Rest of the Week”

A leading European parliamentarian and former Chairman of Germany’s Green Party talks to TAI about China, decoupling, the COVID crisis, Hong Kong, and Transatlantic relations in the age of Trump.

Pro-Iranian Revolution Demonstration, Beirut 1979 (Wikimedia Commons)
Turning Points
The Wandering Cleric and the Year Everything Changed

Two ambitious new books—one on the Saudi-Iranian rivalry since 1979, another on the cleric who mentored Osama bin Laden—trace the upheavals that have shaped the modern Middle East.

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