Bernie Sanders is going to try to get Americans to vote for a set of ideas that have failed to take root every single time in the past. Still, it would be foolish to count him out.

Treating it like one paradoxically enfeebles our foreign policy thinking—and our will to respond.

If Pat Moynihan were still with us today, he would be impressed by our comprehensive rejection of constraint.

How a crowded, female-heavy 2020 field could restart a vital national debate.

Can you have merit-based admissions without a culture of meritocracy? It depends how, exactly, that culture came about.

Beijing’s financial and military inroads into Europe are calling into question America’s traditional assumptions about Transatlantic cooperation.

Despite pleading for clemency by Ukrainians with ties to Vladimir Putin, Russian courts have extended the arrest of Ukrainian seamen captured in the Kerch Strait late last year. TAI recently sat down with Ilya Novikov, a human rights lawyer representing one of the captive sailors, to talk about the case—and about how Russia’s corrupt legal system functions. Our thanks to the Free Russia Foundation for organizing the interview.

The criminal justice system imprisons far too many people for petty misdemeanors. A points-based system, not unlike the one built into our traffic code, could change that.

A growing array of reformers are coming to see the logic of “master reform,” the one most likely to break the logjam on all the others: Ranked Choice Voting.

The persistence of Sudan’s protesters has already toppled its dictator. But will they succeed where the Egyptians and Libyans failed?