An anesthesiologist’s take on the looming crisis in America’s hospitals.

Advanced surveillance tech will prove a false hope for politicians worldwide—as it already has for China’s authoritarian leaders.

Is China’s brand of coercive “soft power” a contradiction in terms? A new edited volume helps cut through the morass.

How a nation that loved ruins was itself reduced to rubble—and in its own ashes discovered new, impossible ideals.

A German immigrant loves America, hates U.S. politics, and pines for his first homeland. On a porch in Riverdale (North Bronx), he takes comfort in the bonds of family and community, even as a virus closes in.

The acclaimed author of The Shadow King speaks with TAI about writing historical fiction, the legacy of war in her native Ethiopia, and Western perceptions of African literature.

Miles Davis’s classic jazz-rock hybrid, now celebrating its 50^th anniversary, still has the capacity to astound—and to remind us what real artistic risk-taking looks like.

A closer look at the influential Imperial College study reveals not only some potential flaws in its assumptions but also solid grounds to hope that there is a way to revive economic life after the coronavirus infections peaks.

COVID-19 presents us with both our worst public health crisis in a century and the greatest challenge to our democracy since World War II. Here is a national strategy to address both challenges.

A new book by Ci Jiwei argues that the Communist Party must lead China’s transition to democracy from the top down. But such a process would be a contradiction in terms—and would result in no democracy at all.