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Guns in America
Stop-And-Frisk Hypocrisy on Left and Right

What the reaction to Trump’s stop-and-frisk comments say about the distorted politics of guns and crime in America.

The Fruits of Fracking
Shale Passes a Big Transatlantic Milestone…

…and unfortunately for the UK, it’s not about Britain exploring its own sizable reserves of shale gas.

Duterte
Duterte Mellows, For the Moment

The bombastic president walked back comments from last week about the U.S. military presence in the Philippines.

Reform Minded
Is Argentina the Next Shale Darling?

Only if it makes some difficult, unpopular market reforms.

Pension Meltdown
Oregon Can’t Postpone Judgment Day Forever

Oregon’s pension board head weeps in public as the growing budgetary burden threatens to crush schools across the state. This can’t end well.

India-Pakistan
The Explosive India–Pakistan Situation

Tick tick tick.

Blue Civil War
Obamacare Dysfunction Splits the Left

The battle over the future of the Affordable Care Act will not be over for quite some time.

Much Ado About Nothing
Paris Climate Deal Inches Closer to an Iota of Relevance

Ban Ki-Moon thinks the Paris agreement will be finalized by the end of the year, but will it matter?

America Today
The One Political Institution Surviving the Trust Implosion

Trust in American political institutions has declined precipitously, with one important exception.

Our Blue Model Immigration Bureaucracies
USCIS Accidentally Grants Citizenship to 800 People

Nearly a thousand people from special risk countries were flagged for deportation. Instead, they were made citizens.

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