News Analysis
narrative control
Crime Denialism

Much of the mainstream media narrative around crime seems designed to spin a narrative, rather than report facts.

Feeding the Future
We’re Not Modifying Crop Genes Fast Enough

Temperatures are warming faster than we can develop crops that can thrive in the heat, according to a new study.

Whither Modimentum?
India’s Chief Banker Throws in the Towel

Many economists and investors have have a high opinion of Rajan, but the governor has been under a siege of personal attacks and political assaults at home in recent months.

overregulated
White House War on Jobs Making Progress

How the Democratic Party hastens the decline of less-skilled work.

Crude Economics
Shale Ready to Boom Anew

The U.S. fracking industry held its own against plunging crude prices, and now it’s ready to start growing again.

guild-ed age
The Licensing Disaster

Excessive licensing—an impediment to work for millions of Americans—is the type of issue that a savvy center-right party would seize on.

Buyer's Market
An End to LNG’s Asian Premium?

An oversupplied market is giving new ammunition to Asia’s LNG buyers in their fight to move to spot pricing.

the rule of law
California Lawyers Denounce Mob Justice

With a few important exceptions, media and legal elites have been silent about the threat to the rule of law posed by this kind of torches-and-pitchforks campaign.

Time to Telework
The New York Times Shows Why the Blue Model Is Doomed

In the long run, people who work at home will not support the cumbersome institutions of the bureaucratic state as we know it.

China in the World
China Trying to Keep Its Venezuelan Pound of Flesh

China is getting an ugly reputation both for extending loans to bad actors and then trying to claw them back from the people the dictators robbed and oppressed.

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