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The Great Decoupling
Don’t Call It a Trade War

What’s happening between the United States and China is far bigger than a mere trade dispute. It’s the first step in the long march to a new world order.

Arrested Monks and lay Tibetans in 2008, Students for a Free Tibet via Wikimedia Commons
Peripheral Vision
Will China’s Next Crisis Be in Tibet?

How the question of the Dalai Lama’s successor could create another hot zone of instability along China’s periphery.

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Our Nationalist Moment
Twelve Theses on Nationalism

Nationalism rightly understood means that no nation is an island, and that in the long run the wellbeing of one’s nation cannot be decoupled from the fate of others.

“Eclipse of the Sun” by George Grosz
Eclipse of the Sun
Can a 1920s Painting Help Us Today?

Introducing our September/October 2019 issue—and a special offer for new subscribers.

Bill Witt, “Greeting at $2.00 Shoes, Lower East Side, New York City,” Art Institute of Chicago
All Politics Is Local
The Elite Blind Spots on Immigration

Immigration is a lot more complex than the simple morality-play version we typically get from the media. If you want to understand why, try talking to your neighbors.

Crypto-Kleptocracy
Closing Today’s Illicit Finance Loopholes

America has bolted the front door to illicit financial activity but left the back door wide open.

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Thousand-Word Pictures
The Quintessence of Trumpism

A recent gaffe illustrates the dark core of Donald Trump.

China's peripheral vision
Xi’s Hong Kong Options—and Ours

Hong Kong can show Xi Jinping that repressing freedom is a no-win proposition.

Robber Barons with Hoodies
Anti-Trust in the Age of Facebook

There’s a long American tradition of breaking up companies that have managed to accrue inordinate concentrations of market power. It’s time to dust it off for the digital era.

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Intelligence Failures
The “Deep State” Debate We Deserve (and Probably Won’t Get)

Trump’s bullying of the intelligence community over the Russia investigation is dangerous—and the Democrats need to look beyond Mueller. Because Putin (and others) aren’t going to stop now.

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