As Iran prepares for parliamentary elections tomorrow, TAI’s Jeffrey Gedmin and Sean Keeley interview the Iranian human rights activist and historian in exile, who explains the tectonic social changes unfolding within her native country—and why the regime is losing legitimacy across society, fast.

Some lessons for older, more established democracies taken from the struggles of liberals fighting the good fight in younger and less stable democracies.

If the Mexican border tells us anything beyond partisan dispute, it is that welcoming more migrants will require more policing.

In Germany and the rest of Europe, centrist parties are losing ground.

America’s institutions have traded their formative virtues for performative outrage. In his new book, Yuval Levin argues that it’s up to us to rebuild them.

To understand how tomorrow’s technology will change our lives, we need to look at what yesterday’s futurists got wrong—and right.

Netflix’s Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez is a cautionary tale about self-deception and moral passivity.

Jack Goldsmith’s new book is a courageous, poignant, and personal portrait of Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien—the man long-rumored to have had a hand in disappearing Jimmy Hoffa.

China is energetically sowing divisions between states and the Federal government.

While there is blame to go around, Trump and his Congressional enablers are overwhelmingly responsible for weakening the foundations of the republic. And the effects of America’s democratic decay are already being felt beyond its own borders.