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Peripheral Vision
Why Mongolian Democracy Is Worth Defending

America’s allies in Asia will draw lessons from how nations like Mongolia fare in the new era of U.S.-China competition.

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Disinformation Age
Russia’s Fictional Narratives: A Double-Edged Sword

Republicans leaning on Moscow’s disinformation for political gain would be wise to remember the record of “useful idiocy” during the Cold War.

Grace Dworkin
The Center Can Hold
Driven to the Edge

How capitalism pushes people to political extremes, and how we might save it while rebuilding the center.

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Turkey on the Menu at the NATO Summit
It’s Not Us—It’s Him

Our problems with Turkey aren’t due to Trump, or Obama, or any other President. Put the blame where it belongs: with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his choices.

Italy: The EU's Next Big Problem
No Country for Young Men (or Women)

A conversation with Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and former Italian Treasury official Lorenzo Cadogno on the politics of immigration, demographic decline, and the self-imposed prison of the euro.

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Singapore the Improbable Part II
The Puzzle of Singapore

Capitalist para-democracy with Chinese characteristics? Non-socialist social corporatism? Illiberal-democratic liberalism? The characteristics that make Singapore improbable are themselves an improbable combination of characteristics.

Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute
Reagan Roundtable
Democracy Promotion in the Age of Trump

The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser and TAI contributing editor David J. Kramer host a roundtable discussion with Carl Gershman, Daniel Twining, and Richard Fontaine on Reagan’s legacy and democracy promotion.

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The US and Turkey
Erdoğan’s Undeserving and Underwhelming Visit to DC

Trump’s ongoing bromance with Turkey’s authoritarian leader notwithstanding, Congress and the Administration must act to make clear that the United States isn’t giving Erdoğan a blank check to act in the Middle East.

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Reagan's Westminster Address
Who Do We Think We Are?

Reagan’s answer to the question was clear and stirring. We are “free people, worthy of freedom, and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.”

Presidential Office of Ukraine
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Impeachment Conundrum

The Democrats are facing a dilemma: If they defend democratic norms by acting to remove President Trump from office, they risk getting dragged into a polarizing style of politics that works to his political advantage.

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