Dear TAI readers,Due primarily to financing difficulties, The American Interest is taking a hiatus from publishing new material.We are glad that there is considerable demand and readership for our articles going back to our first issue released in August of 2005. The magazine’s website will remain live, with complimentary access to the entire archive during […]

Trump was the midwife of the Abraham Accords. The father was Ali Khamenei, the “Supreme Leader” of Iran, whose imperial ambitions started to force Arabs and Israelis into a historic realignment decades ago.

Our polarization runs deep. How do we get our politics to a better place after Trump is gone?

Chinese mega-projects, both at home and abroad, are not only a vehicle for corruption. They are a deadly public hazard.

The parallels between “tax optimization” and “corruption” are so strong because they rely on the same mechanisms to get the job done.

Can we imagine a world where greed is not the main driver of events? If liberal democracy is to survive, we have to try.

TAI Publisher Charles Davidson sat down with the former mayor of Miami Manny Diaz to talk about why America is exceptionally bad among Western democracies when it comes to investing in infrastructure.

The mixed successes of transitions from communism in Central and Eastern Europe suggest that countries that cleanly broke with the past enjoyed greater success with reforms.

Every day that goes by more dirty money flows through the United States, but the American people are in control of the tap. If they choose, they can switch it off. 

Isn’t peace—true peace—the surest route to the most enduring security for the Middle East?