Essays
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Strategic Realignment
The Indo-Pacific Moment

Washington’s new strategic focus on the Indo-Pacific aptly aligns with New Delhi’s broadening ambitions—but the growing partnership will need to be carefully managed.

Alternative Facts
The Etiology of Faked News

How technology supercharged the spread of disinformation, and what we can do about it.

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Life of the Mind
IDEA, Ideas, and the New Generation

The millennial generation is inheriting a desolate intellectual scene. Can thoughtfulness make a comeback?

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Northern Ireland
Nationalist Options

A Sinn Fein politician’s fall from grace highlights the dilemmas nationalist politicians face in Northern Ireland.

Markets and Man
The Great Transformer

Karl Polanyi’s classic of the fascist age offers a compelling explanation for our own times.

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Global Populism Rising
Israel’s Crisis of Leadership

The tide of corruption allegations, investigations, and convictions is taking a heavy toll on Israelis’ perceptions of their political class.

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Russia and the West
Little Hope for “Little Russia”

The alienation of Ukrainians and the bleak prospects for rebranding them as “Little Russians” belie the notion of Russian success in Ukraine.

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Freedom's Retreat
Killing Democracy Softly

Modern autocrats are less prone to violence and overt repression than their totalitarian predecessors—but that only makes the threat they pose all the more insidious.

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Identity Politics
Rethinking “One China”

U.S. policy needs to reflect the fact that Taiwan is central to China’s increasingly assertive ideological as well as military challenge.

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State Capitalism
Russia’s Great Bank Takeover

For the past year, the Central Bank of Russia has been systematically destroying the country’s private banks, consolidating immense financial power in the hands of the Kremlin.

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