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India at the Polls
Democracy à la Modi?

After a convincing win in last month’s elections, the question is whether Narendra Modi and his BJP are becoming entrenched political fixtures, or whether India’s rambunctious democracy will soon turn on the incumbents.

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Game Theory 101
Will Trump Bluff His Way to Reelection?

From a purely electoral perspective, a visible effort to deliver on campaign promises usually beats not trying, and winning even minor concessions is typically better than ending up with nothing at all.

Politics Disrupted
Crashing the Parties

In Europe, the ancien régime of the moderate Right and Left is falling prey to the disruptors—mainly rightwing populists, but also non-threatening environmentalists like the surging German Greens who appeal to the center.

The New Public Square
How (Not) to Regulate the Internet

We should be more focused on protecting user rights than on policing content itself.

Andy Warhol, “Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962)
An Editor’s Frustrations
In Search of an Advertising Tax

Trying to get a competent author to examine the idea of taxing advertising turned out to be an exercise in waiting for Godot.

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Deradicalization
In Support of David Frenchism

Sohrab Ahmari’s worldview is completely incompatible with basic tenets of liberalism.

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Green New Zeal
The European Slide Toward Irrelevance

The EU elections confirmed what has already been evident for some time: Europe’s geopolitical impotence.

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History Strikes Back
The Death of the Two-State Solution

The Israeli-Palestinian peace movement got momentum at the end of history. Now that history is back, peace seems further and further away.

United China Relief poster (Wikimedia Commons)
Print & Pixels
Huawei, Hollywood, and the Battle for 5G

Before Beijing tried to dominate our wireless networks, it succeeded in dominating our film industry. That’s a saga in urgent need of telling.

Jan Ekels (II), “People Playing Cards at an Inn” (1784)
Of Sea and Land
China’s Long Game

The West can have an unbeatable hand against Beijing, if it plays its cards right.

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