Diesel Dupe
VW’s Not the Only One Fooling Car Tests

American cars aren’t as efficient as officially recorded, either.

Climate Negotiating
India’s Weak Green Promises

India’s priorities: poverty reduction, and its right to grow.

Religion in the USA
The Popemobile Comes to America

How much does it matter if the Pope pushes a quasi-Marxist ideology? Probably quite a lot.

U.S. and the Middle East
Turkey à la Carte

The U.S. should stop assuming that its interests and those of its ally and fellow NATO member will generally overlap. There’s room for cooperation with Turkey, but only on a case-by-case basis.

Anxiety for Xi
China’s Army Getting Restive

Mutterings in the ranks over troop reductions should worry President Xi—a coup’s unlikely but no longer unthinkable.

Israel and the Academy
The Politicization of Middle East Studies

The influential Middle East Studies Association objects to the State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism, thereby giving up any pretense of professionalism it still had.

Religion in America
Church Picnics and the Communion of Saints

It is unrealistic to force people who have nothing in common in this world to enjoy relaxed sociability, and yet that has become the norm among American religious communities.

Iran and Russia
Clinton Tacks to the Right of President Obama on Foreign Policy

She doesn’t trust Iran, and thinks we should be harder on Putin.

SCOTUS
Is Government Unionization a Free Speech Issue?

A case coming before the Supreme Court this autumn argues that it is, but public unions have done far more damage to American civic life than just abridging their members’ rights.

Power Balancing
Emperor Nero’s Lesson on Ukraine

As the Romans knew, the secret to regaining influence over a teetering buffer state is: reputation, reputation, reputation.

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