Pipeline Politics
The Irrelevance of Keystone

Blocking Keystone won’t save the environment. By the same token, approving it won’t destroy our climate, either.

Falklands Again
Russia Offers Arms to Argentina

Russia is set to sell Argentina up to a dozen long-range strike aircraft. There’s really only one place Buenos Aires could use them to target.

Stuck in the Middle Again
Central Europe: A Vanishing Idea

Looking back on 2014, we can see that the first victim of Russia’s war in Ukraine was not a state, but an idea.

The Year's Best
Top Hits of TAI in 2014

Make it a new year’s resolution to catch up with the magazine’s must-read essays of 2014.

UN Security Council Vote
Africa to Israel’s Rescue

The Palestine proposal did not even make it to a U.S. veto, thanks to African votes.

Bankrupt Healthcare
The Grey Lady Deflates the Medicaid Expansion

As the temporary Medicaid payment increases expire, access to care for many Medicaid patients will become even more restricted.

Gazproblems
Gazprom Bottoms Out

Gazprom expects 2014 production to hit an all-time low, while Russian ministers predict a 4 percent drop in GDP in 2015.

Reviews
Policing a Broken-Windows World

Bret Stephens’s new book draws on the landmark theory of urban crime and disorder to conjure a middle way between interventionism and isolationism in U.S. foreign policy.

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Presidential Language
Be It Resolved

In the course of an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep released earlier this week, President Obama tried to flatter the Supreme Leader and other assorted higher-ups in Tehran. Will it work?

Blue lines and Blue Models
Tribalism and Peak Left

Contra Daniel Patrick Moynihan, many people now believe they are entitled to their own facts.

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