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race and admissions
Affirming Disadvantage

The old rationales for racial preferences in admissions no longer make any sense. It’s time for enlightened America to hit the reset button.

Kremlinology
Putin 4.0: It’s All in the Family

As rival clans seek to pounce, Russia’s Yeltsin-era elites are going out of their way to signal their fealty to Putin.

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Cyber Insecurity
Arms Races to the Bottom

There is a basic similarity between nuclear and cyber arms races—and thus plenty of reason to worry about developing cyber tools as offensive weapons.

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Ever Closer Union?
Why Macron Cannot Integrate Europe

The French President’s grand ambitions for EU integration have crumbled in the face of political realities. It is time to ponder an alternative approach.

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Arms Control
Can Reagan Show Trump How to Save the INF Treaty?

If the President wants to use an arms build-up to advance arms control, he should take his cues from the Reagan record.

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Ranked-Choice Voting
A Victory for Democratic Reform

The voters of Maine rejected political cynicism on Tuesday and endorsed one of the most promising reforms to our politics.

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Pipeline Politics
Why Nord Stream 2 Will Not Be Built

Don’t be fooled by recent approvals: U.S sanctions and a weakening European consensus make the construction of Gazprom’s controversial pipeline less likely than ever.

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America's Institutional Health
The Medicalization of the Police

The police have become first responders to the most widespread and fastest-growing drug crisis in American history: the opioid epidemic.

Migration and Its Discontents
The Impacts of Immigration: Europe vs. America

The consequences of immigration will be harsher, and the problems to which it gives rise less manageable, in the European Union than in the United States.

The SCOTUS Cakeshop Judgment
Anti-Discrimination Eats Itself

The Court’s latest case shows how overly broad conceptions of civil rights protections have turned important laws against themselves, like an overactive immune system that consumes its host.

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