News Analysis
Obama's Syria Policy
Kerry Accepts the Unacceptable

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, let’s strengthen our partnership. That’s the spirit of the Obama Administration’s policy of dealing with Russia in Syria.

Crude Economics
Don’t Look Now, but the Global Oil Surplus Just Tripled

Will this push petrostates to act in Algiers next week?

Higher Education Watch
Fighting Anti-Semitism at CUNY

Militant anti-Israel ideology is a hallmark of the illiberal Left—and has been taking college campuses by storm in recent years.

WRM Elsewhere
Nationalism Is Not the Only Way

Read our own Walter Russell Mead in Mosaic, where he argues that neither “nationalist particularism” nor “cosmopolitan universalism” is “the answer to the human condition.”

Frack Baby Frack
Shale Is Hale in the American Northeast, Too

Natural gas is booming in the Appalachian basin.

Jihadism in Africa
Mali’s President at the UN: We’ve Still Got a Colossal Jihadist Problem

Here’s the thing about terrorists in Mali: we’ll hear nothing about them and nothing about them and then suddenly everything will be about them.

Crude Economics
How Cheap Crude Is Hurting Saudi Arabia

As the House of Saud cuts spending, the country’s middle class is hurting.

India Ascendant?
India Moves to Upgrade Air Capabilities

In the face of new and expected threats from China and Pakistan, India needs improved capabilities.

"Your Move Capriles"
Maduro Stymies His Enemies

Venezuela’s opposition is facing the prospect of having its referendum postponed indefinitely, giving an opening to hardliners advocating an abandonment of politics in favor of “civil disobedience” tactics.

At the Ballot Box
The Case for Charters is Overwhelming

Massachusetts charter schools have an unassailable record of improving academic outcomes for vulnerable students.

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