On December 23, TAI Founding Editor Adam Garfinkle spoke with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart about the movie The Front Runner, a dramatization of his “hell week” during May 1987. Below is a lightly edited transcript of that conversation.

Brussels has made clear its belief that Brexit was a mistake. But at this point, a clean break is probably for the best.

Another year, another round of prognostication. TAI editors speculate about what 2019 has in store.

At half-time, Donald Trump has demolished a lot and rebuilt nothing. Even his short-term foreign policy successes have proven brittle. And in the longer term, his not-so-grand strategy—aka “America First”—may well prove costly, as it always has for America.

The inquiries into one scandal-ridden Estonian bank branch reveal the deep failures of post-financial crisis governance—and the serious risks that money laundering poses to the financial system.

If you want to understand what’s gone wrong in Congress, the career of Jim Wright offers a good place to start.

Russia’s “managed democracy” is still far from competitive, but it’s experiencing increased political friction as stakeholders demand more concessions from the Kremlin.

How was the smaller, poorer America of 1968—a country not always good but often great—able to accomplish so much that we deem impossible today?

As everyone knows, the evening of December 31 is New Year’s Eve. But why is December 31 New Year’s Eve? And why is the next year the number 2019?

In a competitive world, with antagonistic external powers and growing internal imbalances, the dream is failing.