GOP in CA
Republicans Court Silicon Valley Libertarians

Sen. Rand Paul is making a big push in the Golden State. Is Silicon Valley starting to see the benefits of playing the political field?

Foreign Policy a la Modi
India Refuses to Censure Israel

India’s parliament has refused to accept a resolution to censure Israel for its military campaign in Gaza. For a country historically sympathetic to the Palestinians, this is a notable change.

Jokowi Widodo and Prabowo Subianto. © Getty Images/AFP
Indonesia's Election
Waiting For a Verdict

Indonesia’s General Election Commission is set to release its official results to the hotly contested presidential elections tomorrow. It’s not likely to put an end to the matter.

Trouble in Turkey
Erdogan: Israel Worse Than Hitler

The Turkish PM had extraordinarily ugly words for Israel, as riots nearly overran the Israeli embassy in Ankara. Turkish-Israeli relations are definitely back on the rocks.

Enviro-Mental
Anti-GMO Activists Are Harming Hungry Africans

Genetically modified crops could feed millions of hungry Africans and bolster the continent’s shaky food security, but Luddite anti-GMO campaigners have so successfully smeared the technology that no African government has approved its use.

Sanctions for Russia
Will Europe Rattle Putin’s Cage?

EU leaders are set to meet on Tuesday to discuss further sanctions on Russia, and Putin’s billionaires appear to be scared. But will the Europeans follow through?

Send in the Drones
US Restarts Drone Campaign in Pakistan

U.S. drone strikes have begun again in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas after a six-month hiatus.

God Wars in Pakistan
As Pakistan Battles the Taliban on the Border, Extremism Infects the South

Pakistan’s ongoing campaign against the Taliban isn’t going as well as its media would have you think. Meanwhile, Sunni extremism is laying down roots in the country’s religiously diverse Southern province.

that's so bourgeois
America’s Middle-Class Myopia

How our cultural fixation on the welfare of the middle class blinds us to a deeper view of human freedom and flourishing.

Growing Pains
"Peak Soil" Is Latest Malthusian Worry

Modern agriculture is focused on growing more with less, but the monoculture approach that entails also leeches necessary nutrients out of soil. Have we hit “peak soil,” and if we have, what can we do about it?

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