The American "war on drugs" is more than 35 years old, and we're losing it. Some proposals to turn the tide.

Averting maximal disaster in Iraq may require controlled population resettlement. We need to start thinking about it now.

Current concern over post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction policies has an instructive history.

Political humor is serious business.

On politicking in the age of television and political “science.”

I recently visited Dili, capital of Timor-Leste, in connection with some work I’m doing for the World Bank. Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) has been one of the great experiments in state-building by the international community. East Timor was a colony of Portugal until 1975, when it was briefly set free and then immediately conquered by […]

In case you missed this about AI editorial board member Owen Harries… FRI 15 DEC 2006, Page 47 The influencer By: Story by Andrew Clark OWEN HARRIES IS THE MAN WHO LAUNCHED THE CATCHCRY THAT DEFINED AN ERA. BUT AS HISTORY RESUMED, HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF INCREASINGLY REMOTE FROM SOME FORMER FELLOW TRAVELLERS Owen Harries […]

Ken Jensen, Executive Director of the American Committees on Foreign Relations, brings us this account of TAI‘s recent sojourn in Birmingham, Alabama:For two days in October 2006, The American Interest’s Frank Fukuyama, Adam Garfinkle and Charles Davidson, TAI contributor Raymond Baker, and America Abroad Media’s Aaron Lobel traveled to Birmingham, Alabama, to talk foreign policy […]

Franco Furger and I have just released the final report of our Human Biotechnologies Governance Project. The report calls for the creation of a new federal regulatory agency to oversee human reproductive medicine in the United States. It argues that the current regulatory structure, spread between the FDA, NIH, and state regulatory bodies, is inadequate […]

Just over a week before the mid-term elections, House Majority Leader John Boehner told George Stephanopoulos that he did not worry about the Republicans retaining their majority in the House. “Where Republicans are being hurt most is among independents,” he said. “But independents don’t show up in the off year.” What Boehner said is true, […]