It’s not just that Putin’s “trust” numbers are in free fall. It’s that his most trusted pollsters appear to be in a panic about it.

Right now, members of Congress have few financial incentives to compromise in the face of government shutdowns. A constitutional amendment could change that.

Can sticking to the facts obscure the truth? A recent Broadway play takes a Talmudic approach to the debate.

President Trump and his isolationist backers may think otherwise, but there is no real alternative to continued involvement.

Modern representative democracy is unthinkable without innovations pioneered by the medieval Catholic Church.

On freedom of expression, leadership matters and bad behavior acts like a virus. Political actors look at their neighbors and act accordingly.

Academic “realists” are guilty of intellectual overreach in their critique of international overreach.

TAI’s Richard Aldous hosts Andrew Roberts for a discussion of his bestselling new biography Churchill: Walking with Destiny. (A lightly edited transcript from our podcast.)

Andrew Roberts’s Churchill biography confronts his subject’s central paradox: How the ardent believer in the goodness of British imperialism became the stalwart champion of liberal democracy.

A giant has passed away.