China's Bubble
China Celebrates July 4 By Melting Down

As Americans guzzled and gulped their way through the 238th annual celebration of the Declaration of Independence, China’s financial markets writhed in what some analysts warned could be the Big One— the long expected bust that would end the world’s longest economic boom.

SCOTUS and Society
The Court and Gay Marriage

SCOTUS was acting as the voice of American public opinion; part of the Court’s job is to enhance its legitimacy in society. We leave the legal commentary to others.

Reforming Delivery
What We Should Do Next on Health Care

After SCOTUS’s ruling on Obamacare, here is where our health care conversation needs to go—and how we will know if reforms are working

Hope is not a Plan
Obama’s Grave Miscalculations

As the consequences of errors made in the quieter years before 2012 have begun to take their toll, and the significant misjudgments and missteps made since the election have added to the chaos, President Obama is in danger of the achieving the least successful track record in foreign policy of any American president, bar none.

Both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
Abortion: The Great American Exception

More than 40 years after Roe v. Wade, a new report finds that Americans are not only choosing to restrict abortion more tightly, fewer Americans are choosing to have them. American individualism is predicated on a deep respect for human life.

Our Brave New World
What the Freedom Act Really Means

Congress’ passage of the contentious surveillance bill is less significant than either side will have you believe. But the issues motivating the debate are incredibly important.

Liveblog
Britain Goes To The Polls

As polls close in the UK, we will have rolling commentary as the results start coming in.

Race and Class in America
After the Wire

TAI was ahead of the game with our series of articles on race and class in America in 2012. Take a look, dear readers.

Then and Now
A Sad Contrast With Editorials Today

150 years ago, our journalists and media magnates had a profound consciousness and respect for our entire dependency on the providence and mercy of God for the many blessings that surrounded us.

The Civil War Sesquicentennial
Reunification, Reconstruction, and Regret

“Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.” (Churchill)

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