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At the Movies
All About Eve and the Rules of the Hollywood Game

The 1950 classic All About Eve vividly showcases both what Hollywood pretends to be and what it actually is—a contrast that couldn’t be timelier.

We Can Do it! (Wikimedia Commons)
For the Duration Only?
Shaping the Post-Pandemic Safety Net

Will the coronavirus usher in lasting changes to our social safety net and welfare policies? Absent an active political effort, history suggests otherwise.

The Diaspora Dilemma
When to Leave?

For Jews, this is the perennial question. A new book explores how Jewish communities around the world are navigating it.

Reichstag Redux
Viktor Orban’s Dictatorial Trajectory

Coronavirus is Orban’s Reichstag fire.

COVID-19
The Superpower Remover

COVID-19 could accelerate America’s decline as a superpower. But we are not powerless to avert the worst-case scenario.

Gender Troubles
A Short History of Decline

From 18th-century Britain to Trump-era America, concerns about geopolitical weakness have gone hand in hand with sexual panic. Rarely do the worst-case scenarios come to pass.

In Lieu of Opening Day
The Poetry of Baseball

An appreciation of the national pastime—and the 2019 Washington Nationals.

TAI Conversations
Safeguarding the Constitution—and Election—During COVID-19

William A. Galston speaks with Jeffrey Gedmin and Charles Davidson to explain how the pandemic raises thorny questions about constitutional authorities and the rule of law—and why it’s essential that this year’s elections not be postponed.

Power Transfers and Bloodshed
Why Elections Must Go On

Letting the pandemic disrupt democracies’ regular transfers of power would indeed be a cure far worse than the disease. We must find a way to press on with elections—safely.

COVID-19 Coverup
The Chinese Big Lie

Why is Beijing covering up what happened in Hubei? Put simply: because it can.

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