The Euro at 20
Europe’s Self-Inflicted Disaster

The euro’s prospects for the future are dismal. But right now, abandoning the currency is a political dead-end.

“The Moneylender and His Wife,” Quentin Matsys (Public Domain)
Banking and Government
Bigger, Fewer, Riskier: The Evolution of U.S. Banking Since 1950

For all that has changed in the past 70 years, one thing that hasn’t is the tight connection between government and the banks.

Star-Crossed Cultures
Cold War Kids

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is an ambivalent film: Though it makes no apologies for communism, its attitude toward the West feels decidedly bitter.

The Effects of Bad Government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Global Disorder
The Sources of the West’s Decline

The growing problems in the Transatlantic community long precede the Trump Administration, Brexit, and the rise of populist movements.

Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol via National Gallery of Art
Pop Culture & Public Policy
Beyond Mary Poppins: The Politics and Economics of Real-Life Nannies

From Roma to Mary Poppins Returns, fictional portraits of nannies are more popular than ever. Yet the reality of their lives—and the dysfunction of our public policy on care work—is too often obscured.

Goya, Saturn Devouring His Children via Wikimedia Commons
Arrested Development
The Russian Private Sector Eats Its Own

The arrest of an American businessman in Russia echoes the Khodorkovsky and Browder episodes from the early 2000s.

Economic Literacy
A Failure of Pedagogy

From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Donald J. Trump, our political class is profoundly ignorant of basic economics.

Jean Louis Forain, Public Domain
Bibi's Balancing Act
Can Netanyahu Lose?

This April’s elections in Israel are no longer a sure thing for Netanyahu, but even with his rivals teaming up against him, the race is still Bibi’s to lose.

Arms Control
It’s Time to Retire the INF Treaty

Nostalgia might be comforting, but it should not compel us to hang on to a treaty that does not reflect today’s global security landscape.

Photo by Danielle Desjardins
A Conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy
Europe, and the Values That Made America

TAI caught up with the famous French philosopher to talk about his latest book—and how to save Western civilization.

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