Libya on Fire
Egypt Promises to Train Pro-Government Fighters in Libya

Egypt has made the pro-government Libyan forces an offer of military training and intelligence help, according to new reports. Is another war in the offing?

U.S. troops arrive in Lithuania, April 2014. PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images
Russia and the West
The Baltics Confront Moscow’s Ambitions

Can NATO protect the Baltic countries against a non-conventional threat from a resurgent Moscow?

How Low Can It Go?
Oil Benchmark Hits 28-Month Low

The price of crude oil has declined significantly in recent months, in part because of a flood of new supplies from the shale-rich United States. Low prices spell trouble for petrostates, including Russia.

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The Caucasus
Time for Sanctions on Baku

As the West has turned its attention to the Islamic State and the Ukraine crisis, the government of President Ilham Aliyev has expanded its crackdown on dissenting voices in Azerbaijan with harassment, threats, beatings, and arrests. Even American citizens and international NGOs have bet caught up in the widening net of repression. These actions demand a response.

ACA Agonistes
One Year Out, No Consensus on Fixing the ACA

Politico gathered together 15 top health care policymakers and wonks to suggest ways to improve or fix Obamacare, one year after the law’s implementation. Some aired helpful ideas, but on the whole the pundit class still lacks a big vision about market-driven reform of service delivery.

Air Force None
German Troops Stranded in Afghanistan

Germany has so few planes working that it might have to bring troops stranded in Afghanistan home with Angela Merkel’s jet.

Prices Prices Prices
Time to Stop Studying Price Transparency—and Start Implementing It

Yet another study has confirmed what we should already have known: people respond to price signals. That making prices transparent isn’t one of the highest priorities in health care reform is unfathomable.

Who's The Boss
Putin Rattling the Chain in Donetsk?

Shells land in downtown Donetsk for the first time since the ceasefire was signed, as Russian-backed separatists appeared to make progress against pro-Kiev forces holding the airport.

Russian Soft Power
China Admires "Putin the Great"

Countries that hope to revise the world order draw inspiration from each other—so it was when Britain ruled the waves, and so it is today for the U.S. With the Chinese lionizing “Putin the Great” for his anti-Western actions in Europe, one cannot help but shudder at what Beijing may think it has learned.

Europe's Secessionists
Catalonia Puts Secession on Hold—Indefinitely?

Leaders in the Catalonia secession movement have agreed to obey a court injunction against the proposed November referendum, suspending for the time being any campaigning on behalf of it. This move defuses an immediate constitutional crisis, but Catalonia’s determination to keep pushing on means the detente might be temporary.

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