The COVID crisis has injected a legitimate humanitarian imperative into bailing countries out of a sovereign debt crisis of historic proportions. The hastiness of the bailouts, however, is setting up all sorts of dire unintended consequences.

Political crises, a continent-wide recession, and democratic backsliding—these are just a few of the likely side effects as COVID-19 spreads across Africa.

Singapore’s security has always depended on American military power. No surprise, then, that its denizens feel increasingly insecure.

Netanyahu’s pledge to press on with annexation in the West Bank is a high-risk, low-reward proposition for Israel.

Whatever the result of the constitutional referendum underway in Russia, Putin is increasingly a leader who has nowhere to lead.

Seventy years ago, leading lights of the free world gathered in Berlin to push back against Soviet efforts to discredit liberal values. What can their efforts teach us today?

Earlier this month, The Washington Post ran a story that ended up destroying the life of a woman guilty of nothing more than poor judgment and bad taste. A biting Cold War-era German novella helps explain our current moment.

Anne Applebaum’s new book grapples with why former friends abandoned liberalism as authoritarianism gained ground across the West.

Six do’s and six don’ts for a properly calibrated policy response to China.

The author of The End of History reflects on the life and friendship of Owen Harries (1930-2020), a founding editor of The National Interest and a mentor and inspiration to us here at TAI.