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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Securing the Peace

How the security issue, far from being an intractable impediment, could help set the foundations of an Israeli-Palestinian peace.

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Identity Crisis
Immigration and the Logic of Liberalism

A new book on immigration claims to offer an economic argument against open borders. Instead, it offers a cultural argument against modern liberalism.

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A NATO Base in Poland
Making “Fort Trump” A Reality

The President has a chance to send an unmistakable message of NATO and U.S. resolve by establishing a permanent military presence in Poland.

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American Institutions
Social Sources and Perils of the Trump Presidency

The widespread approval of Trump’s most outrageous norm-breaking behavior tells us that, even before Trump, something fundamental about those norms had changed.

Putin's Retirement Plan?
The Privatization That Wasn’t

New reporting confirms that the “privatization” of Russia’s oil giant Rosneft was the kleptocratic fraud we suspected all along.

Working It Out
Debunking Economic Piety

Oren Cass explains why a focus on consumption has led our economic policy astray, and how we can create a labor market that puts workers first. (A transcript from our podcast.)

Tender is the Night
Murky Nuclear Business in New Europe

How business is now done: Russia and China appear to be tussling in the shadows for a lucrative no-bid nuclear contract in the Czech Republic.

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March of Folly
The Irony and Tragedy of the Brexit Negotiations Endgame

It’s not too late. The folly of Brexit is still reversible.

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Refuting the Doomsayers
Resilient Democracies

Those who look to the interwar period to warn of democratic breakdown today are indulging in a false historical analogy—and drawing far gloomier conclusions than the evidence merits.

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The Latest Migration Crisis
Why More Caravans Are Coming

Remittances set off vicious cycles of debt and crime that push more Central Americans north.

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