News Analysis
Propped Up
Germany Chucks One Green Subsidy Out, Reaches for Another

Feed-in tariffs for large renewable power projects have been scrapped in favor of competitive auctions.

Blue Model Blues
Republicans Helped Create the Pension Crisis

A new study should blunt Republicans’ self-righteousness about their party’s allegedly superior fiscal prudence.

The European Immigration Crisis
Refugee Crossings to Greece Down 97%

But that may be because of inhumane conditions in refugee camps and paralysis on repatriation.

Ethnic Tensions
The Dogs of War Are Loose in South Sudan

This past weekend, South Sudan marked five years of independence. But a return to civil war is looming after rival ethnic militias killed hundreds in Juba, the young country’s capital.

Age of Abe
Abe’s Smart Politics

Perhaps more than anything else, Abe’s success is the result of his political acumen and the disarray of his Liberal opponents.

The EU and the Tech Revolution
Germany Isn’t Keeping Up with the Jobses

New report reveals slow pace of adaptation to tech revolution.

Trouble for Tehran
Iran’s Kurds Now Growing Restless

Attack on regional governor shows influence of Syrian Civil War.

Profound Philosophy
A New-Sprung Kremlin Thinker Tanker Tries to Expand Germans’ Minds

Former Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin, on the outs with Putin, is trying to buy back his respectability by financing his own Kremlin-aligned think tank. It might be working.

Market Failure
Carbon Markets Are Failing on a Global Scale

From the US to Europe to Asia, the price of carbon is way too low to affect serious change in emissions habits.

finding meaning
How We Respond

As national as our conversations may sometimes feel in the Internet age, the most meaningful exchanges still happen in the car on the way to school, in the pews before prayers begin, at community dinners, and during the lunch break.

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