News Analysis
free speech and its limits
The Gawker Precedent

Re-visiting the judgment against a mischievous media company.

Tehran Recovers
The Limits of Iran’s Oil Rebound

The resilience of Iranian oil production post-sanctions surprised analysts, but its road ahead is about to get a lot more challenging.

Crime and Punishment
New Evidence of a Ferguson Effect

Debates about the latest crime spike have been deeply distorted and corrosively politicized.

Tango Nuevo
Argentina’s New Government Stops the Lies

Macri is bringing honest accounting back to Argentina’s notoriously unreliable statistics office.

2016
The Jacksonian Roots of Trump’s Success

Why did Trump win? Why didn’t the GOP see it coming? Look to America’s forgotten folk tradition, writes TAI’s own Nicholas M. Gallagher.

21st C Indenturement
Workers Laid Off By H-1B Immigrants Speak Out

Victims of the “outsourcing visa” tell their stories—and the New York Times listens.

The China Bubble
For China, Light At the End of the Tunnel Looks Fainter

For months, the conventional wisdom has been that China is going through a necessary transition, but that it will come out stronger than ever. Is that still true?

Weighing the ACA
Premium Hikes Get Steeper

Obamacare has still not achieved what its backers initially said was one of its key objectives.

Around Town
Will Russia Sanctions Be Extended This Month by the EU?

That’s the question we asked a set of Russia hands around town this week.

The European Immigration Crisis
Poll: Half of Germans Sometimes Feel Like Foreigners in own Country

Related: AfD up, Merkel down.

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