Not long ago TAI published (online and in the print magazine) an essay by Scott Alexander called “Notes on Cost Disease.” This essay originated as an extended blog post from the author and, like a lot of blog posts, it was written in a personal, loosely structured way. The author, whose real name I came […]

Theresa May is going to win the election. The question is by how much.

Students are majoring in liberal arts at the lowest rate since 1948—and maybe even since 1900, depending on how you look at things.

Another symbolic gesture to Trump?

Even though Hillary Clinton lost two elections, the Clinton machine is still very much in place.

Secretary Mattis arrives in Kabul on a surprise visit after the deadliest attack on the Afghan military since the start of the war.

Turkish democracy didn’t die all at once in last week’s referendum; it’s been languishing for years. Why did so many in the West fail to notice?

It won’t transform the balance of power overnight, but it may spook the neighbors.

Will a win for the “radical center” signal anything more than a slow decline of the status quo toward failure?

If federalism means anything at all, it means that states and cities should, unless some grave emergency exists, be responsible for their own transit and transportation infrastructure.