You Can't Go Home Again
Russia’s Rich Exiles Are Gone For Good

As the election looms, the Kremlin is peddling a narrative that its exiled businessmen are begging to bring their money home. Don’t believe the hype.

Asian Futures
Limiting Chinese Aggression: A Strategy of Counter-Pressure

Five strategic fallacies are causing us to overlook a range of options for deterring Beijing.

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European Expansion
The EU Embrace

The excitement over EU enlargement has faded, but the benefits of Europe’s institutions already extend past its borders.

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Better Angels
Against Piggybacking

What do President Trump and some of his fiercest critics have in common?

higher education
In Defense of Adjuncts

How older part-time professors, seasoned by real-world experience, are helping to revitalize American universities.

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Print & Pixels
With All Due Respect

A lesson from Nigeria, on balancing the blessings of modernity and the celebration of an ancestral past.

Blindspots
The Dangers of Democratic Determinism

Why neoconservatives, liberal internationalists, and democracy activists are misreading the present moment.

Culture in America
The Meaning of the Super Bowl

In the age of drones, football is war between individual men.

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Political Decay
Kenya’s Democratic Drift

With the opposition leader declaring himself “People’s President” and the authorities clamping down, Kenya’s already troubled democracy is poised for a serious stress test.

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Happy Imbolc!

The sacred origins of the now thoroughly secular Groundhog’s Day.

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