Prevention & Adaptation
Bet on Climate Change, Not the Green New Deal

Climate change is a real and serious threat. How to tackle it, however, is far from obvious.

The Urban/Rural Divide
Ideas in Search of Authors

How some of the most interesting ideas an editor has never make it into print.

(EU flag design by Rem Koolhaas)
Rotterdam
The City of Europe’s Future

Forget economic anxiety. Rotterdam is a warning that the emerging political fight across Europe really is about cultural assimilation after all.

(Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
The Long March
Vox Populi

Spain’s far Right populists won’t win the elections tomorrow. But they are winning nonetheless.

Democratizing Democracy
What We Know About Peace

It seems safe to say that the political transformations of Russia, China, and Iran into stable democracies would do more to make Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East zones of peace than any other development.

A Hard Sell
Socialism in America?

Bernie Sanders is going to try to get Americans to vote for a set of ideas that have failed to take root every single time in the past. Still, it would be foolish to count him out.

Calling it like it is
Russia Is No Great Power Competitor

Treating it like one paradoxically enfeebles our foreign policy thinking—and our will to respond.

Forgotten Wisdom
Welfare and Debt: A Moynihan Assessment

If Pat Moynihan were still with us today, he would be impressed by our comprehensive rejection of constraint.

“Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo”, Henri Rousseau, 1908
A Conversation with Ilya Novikov
The Rule of Law in the Russian Jungle

Despite pleading for clemency by Ukrainians with ties to Vladimir Putin, Russian courts have extended the arrest of Ukrainian seamen captured in the Kerch Strait late last year. TAI recently sat down with Ilya Novikov, a human rights lawyer representing one of the captive sailors, to talk about the case—and about how Russia’s corrupt legal system functions. Our thanks to the Free Russia Foundation for organizing the interview.

“Visegrád,” by Károly Markó the Elder
Old Habits
Against Visegrád

Sometimes, old concepts are simply no longer useful.

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