The Year's Best
Top Hits of TAI in 2015

Make it a New Year’s resolution to catch up with the magazine’s must-read essays of 2015.

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Yule Blog
One for All

The Christmas story suggests that we can somehow try both to be loyal members of our nations, our families, our tribes—and also to reach out to the broader human community of which we are also a part.

Puerto Rico Blues
Puerto Rico’s Rolling Catastrophe

Puerto Rico bondholders are in for an unpleasant start to 2016 as the island announces that it will default on some of its debt payments due on New Years Day.

Venezuela on the Brink
Venezuela’s Supreme Court Rules Against Opposition

Maduro’s electoral defeat is both good and bad, as the stage may be set for a messy 2016.

Petrostates in Peril
Russia Caps 2015 With Record-Setting Oil Production

For now, Moscow has little choice but to ramp up production to try to offset bargain prices by selling more.

Testing Testing
White House to Introduce New Iran Sanctions

The decision comes in response to blatant violations of U.N. ban on ballistic missile testing.

A Nakht in Di Opera
Hollywood’s Yiddishe Grandma

A 1923 Yiddish operetta returns to the New York stage. It still has a lot to say about Jews and America.

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Yule Blog
Meaning in 3-D

That little baby lying so cutely in the manger is the biggest trouble maker in world history, and the shocking claims that Christianity makes about who He is and what He means irritate and antagonize people all over the world.

Fear the Airpocalypse
Toxic Smog Keeps Chinese Children Indoors

This week, Beijing warned children and the elderly to stay away from deadly smog and not to venture outside.

The Refugee Crisis
Renzi: EU Not Living Up to Refugee Redistribution Promises

Italian PM alleges that only about 0.2% of refugee redistributions been implemented.

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