Democracy is slipping away in Georgia. I went there for The Dispatch, to find out what it feels like to watch your country's future fade: thedispatch.com/article/georgi…

"With 47 seats, the LDP and its junior partner, the Komeito party, fell short of the 50 it needed to win in order to keep control of the 248-seat House of Councillors." Morning Dispatch: Japan’s Long-Governing Party Takes a Hit thedispatch.com/newsletter/mor…

"The world’s worst dictators can rest assured that the next American diplomat to come knocking on their palace doors is more likely to be looking for property rights than human rights." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Excited to share that I am now also a contributing writer for The Dispatch, where I plan to write about immigration policy and Latin American politics. My first article as a contributing writer is out today and looks at Salvadoran pres. Nayib Bukele's bid to rule indefinitely: