Corporate Welfare
The Nuclear Industry at the Feeding Trough

The nuclear lobby is playing the national security card in trying to justify Federal handouts. It’s a con.

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Europe's China Blindspot
No, We Can’t Just Get Along

To partner with a predator is to surrender. Some European diplomats are playing a dangerous game.

TAI Virtual Conversation
Ashley J. Tellis on COVID-19 and American Hegemony

On May 15, 2020 Ashley J. Tellis joined The American Interest to discuss his recent article for the National Bureau of Asian Research—”COVID-19 Knocks on American Hegemony.”

The Eternal Lies of Communism
Xi’s Precarious Bargain

To understand why Beijing is lying so much about COVID-19, you have to understand the corrupt deal China’s Communist Party has struck with the country’s elites.

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slippery slopes
The COVID-19 Test of Democratic Governance

The coronavirus crisis provides all sorts of authoritarian temptations—even for democratic governments. Carefully considering human rights in assessing various policy responses can help us see the dangerous red lines.

TAI Virtual Conversation
Abram Shulsky and Shadi Hamid on the Quest for Meaning in Politics

Liberalism seems to have spawned a set of totalizing counter-ideologies due to its very own fragmentary nature. On May 14, 2020, Abram Shulsky of the Hudson Institute and Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution joined TAI to talk about modernity, religion, and the quest for meaning.

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TAI Virtual Conversation
Francis Fukuyama on Political Decay in Democratic Societies

On Wednesday, May 13, TAI hosted a Zoom discussion with Francis Fukuyama about how the coronavirus might impact our politics. Due to a technical error, we were unable to stream the conversation live; the following is a transcript of the conversation as it occurred.

DEEP DIVE
The Distribution of Suffering, Relief, and Greed in the Pandemic

McKinsey’s former chief economist and a Global Justice Fellow at Yale delve into the COVID-19 data. Part one of a two-part essay on the inequities exposed by the global pandemic.

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A Judicious Review
The Admirable Restraint of the Supreme Court

Is the highest court in the land prone to judicial activism, or antidemocratic overreach? Not so, says Keith Whittington, in a useful new history that confounds partisan narratives on both sides.

European Disunion
Why Transatlantic Relations Are In Trouble

It’s not solely or even mostly Trump; it’s the EU’s inability to get its act together.

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