On April 30, 2020 Constanze Stelzenmüller and Samuel Denney joined TAI to address how COVID-19 stresses Germany’s post-war constitution.

In medicine, there’s often a temptation to rely on neat rules and tidy algorithms. That temptation can be deadly, especially when treating the novel coronavirus.

New developments in Prague, involving a suitcase of ricin and a diplomatic spat, suggest that Putin still is afraid—over five years after Nemtsov’s grisly demise.

Is China a rising threat to be confronted boldly, or a manageable problem to be handled patiently? Four new studies offer ammunition for both sides of the debate.

There are many similarities. But also one big difference.

People are starting to go hungry—at a time of abundance.

If competence varies widely within the same type of regime, then regime type alone cannot possibly be determinative of outcomes.

A Jesuit priest and historian of medieval Germany talks about astronomy, nature, music, service—and faith.

I’d always been a prankster. Now, in the Great Social Distancing of 2020, it was time for someone to get me back.

Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year vividly records how human nature can devolve amid a pandemic—and challenges us all to grow in a time of crisis.