A Failed Policy
State Department up in Arms over Obama Syria Policy

Never has a President’s policy had so much pushback from his own high officials and appointees. Never has a President defied so much evidence to insist on the unique cerebral brilliance of a policy in ruins.

Propped Up
New Solar Subsidies Come with Some Major Problems

A novel approach to subsidizing solar energy fixes some problems but creates a host of new ones.

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944).
Dark Matter
Back to Back

James M. Cain’s one-two punch—The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) and Double Indemnity (1943)—gave us the film noir era, but was it art?

free speech and its limits
The Gawker Precedent

Re-visiting the judgment against a mischievous media company.

Tehran Recovers
The Limits of Iran’s Oil Rebound

The resilience of Iranian oil production post-sanctions surprised analysts, but its road ahead is about to get a lot more challenging.

Crime and Punishment
New Evidence of a Ferguson Effect

Debates about the latest crime spike have been deeply distorted and corrosively politicized.

Getty Images
Here We Go Again
What Orlando Doesn’t Mean

Every time a terrorist atrocity occurs in the U.S. or Europe, the same distorted and highly predictable nonsense pours forth from our media.

Tango Nuevo
Argentina’s New Government Stops the Lies

Macri is bringing honest accounting back to Argentina’s notoriously unreliable statistics office.

2016
The Jacksonian Roots of Trump’s Success

Why did Trump win? Why didn’t the GOP see it coming? Look to America’s forgotten folk tradition, writes TAI’s own Nicholas M. Gallagher.

A Conversation With William Browder
Russia’s Plot to Smear Magnitsky

The Kremlin is attempting to undermine support for the Magnitsky Act, using a controversial Russian documentary.

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