Essays
Identity Crisis
Can Big Oil Go Green?

The world’s oil majors aren’t shifting to renewables the way greens would like—and doing so will mean making the world more corporate and capitalist than it currently is.

A Special Relationship
Friends or Frenemies?

The puzzling foundations of the Anglo-American special relationship.

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Russia and the West
Answer the Baltics’ S.O.S.

Approving the Baltic states’ request for a permanent NATO military presence is the best way to prevent war with Russia and preserve the alliance.

100 Years
The Armenian Genocide and Its Deniers

The 100th year anniversary of one of the great crimes of the 20th century provides a moment to reflect.

It's the EnergyStupid
Crude Story

The United States should export energy in the form of oil to allies and leverage a new American petro-diplomacy against adversaries.

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Understanding Diversity
Obama, Anti-Semitism and Iran

Are anti-Semites ultimately rational actors who happen to hold despicable views? Or does their prejudice warp their perception of the world so fundamentally that they calculate risks and rewards differently from most Western elites?

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Requiem for a Policy
After the Summit

With new EU memberships now essentially off the table, the EU’s Eastern Partnership is on its last legs.

A Bloody Century
The Politics of Genocide

The Armenian genocide is not the only mass slaughter of the 20th century to go unfairly unrecognized. It is past time to acknowledge these genocides as such.

Class in America
Virtue and Vice in Indiana

A pizza shop, a national uproar, and the emergence of a new class configuration.

Armed and Dangerous
Cops and the Fourth Amendment

President Obama’s announcement today that local police forces in the United States will no longer be able to access certain kinds of military surplus equipment is the best news we’ve heard from the White House in a long time.

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