The mixed successes of transitions from communism in Central and Eastern Europe suggest that countries that cleanly broke with the past enjoyed greater success with reforms.

Getting Belarus on track will be difficult. But it must be tried.

The global trading system has been under stress for some time. A three-way agreement, between the U.S., UK, and EU, could lighten the load.

A new book by Bruno Maçães argues that “the real world has many disadvantages.” Perhaps—but not as many as the unreal one.

It’s not solely or even mostly Trump; it’s the EU’s inability to get its act together.

After months of seclusion and death, the boredom of normal life might once again become a rather attractive proposition.

The space between the cosmopolitan and progressive politics of the left and the vulgar nationalism of the populist right is shrinking. My own recent experience running for office attests to it.

As Slovaks count votes today, TAI contributing editor Dalibor Rohac and MEP Miriam Lexmann discuss their involvement in their native country’s politics.

“Graft and corruption are bad” is an effective, uncontroversial slogan that cuts across ideological divides. It commands support in both center-left and center-right circles—especially in the United States.

Liberal self-flagellation over the supposed failure of post-communist transitions is pointless—and even worse, counterproductive and dangerous.