Opacities
Hot Stuff, Cold Logic

Politically correct climate change orthodoxy has completely destroyed our ability to think rationally about the environment.

Opacities
Shining a Light on the Shadow Economy

The world’s ‘informal economy’ doesn’t just exist in poor countries, and it isn’t small-in size or in its effect.

Opacities
Mistral Mysteries

Unraveling the ensemble of motives behind France’s sale of amphibious assault craft to Russia is no simple matter.

Opacities
The New Industrial Espionage

The information revolution has rendered obsolete the legacy legal regime on intellectual property rights, enabling spying for commercial purposes to morph into a strategic issue.

Opacities
Russia’s Sub Rosa Statecraft

Spying, mole-planting, subversion, and financial arm-twisting are major components of Moscow’s new hybrid campaign against European democracies.

What Ukraine Means
Russia’s Aggressive Isolationism

Putin is leveraging foreign policy for domestic purposes, a flip made possible by a globalized world.

What Ukraine Means
The “Kind of Thing” Crisis

The Ukraine problem is more about the West than it is about Russia.

Global Education Bubble
The Market in International Students

The U.S. is still well in the lead in the race to attract international students to its universities. But other countries are getting better at this game.

Budget Woes
Pensions in the Land of Lincoln, Round 2

The challenge to Illinois’s pension reform is heading to the state supreme court. Here’s how the state is feeling the pinch from its long-term pension mismanagement.

Playing Defense
Ashton Carter’s Nuclear Know-How

Way back in 2006, Obama’s Defense Secretary nominee proposed an interesting plan for nuclear power’s future in an issue of The American Interest.

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