News Analysis
Luddite Greens
Yes, the Left Can Be Anti-Science Too

Luddite sentiments run rampant on both sides of the aisle.

Global Commodities Collapse
Amid Steel Glut and Weak Demand, China Refuses to Curb Output

There’s a mismatch between supply and demand these days that isn’t correcting itself.

Arctic Shipping
China Rediscovers the Northwest Passage

China is looking to capitalize on melting Arctic ice by traversing the fabled Northwest Passage.

Not a Happy Campus
“An Alarming Concentration of Anti-Speech Activity”

The authoritarian antics of left-wing campus activists is most intense institutional threat to free speech in the United States in a generation, according to an anti-censorship watchdog.

Submarines Down Under
Is the Australia–Japan Sub Deal Dead?

And if so, is it a substantial setback for Tokyo-Canberra relations?

Islam and the West
Prison Chaplains Preaching Radical Islam in UK

Ministry of Justice report records distribution of materials calling for murder.

Latin Lefty Meltdown
Caracas Can’t Keep the Crude Coming

Next up in Venezuela’s economic death spiral: significant cuts to the petrostate’s oil production.

marriage matters
The Divorce Paradox

As young Americans have grown increasingly liberal on issues like pre-marital sex, single-parent families, and cohabitation, they have also grown increasingly conservative on the question of divorce.

North Korea Fallout
Another Nork Nuke Test On Its Way?

Amidst reports of coming North Korean nuclear and missile tests, South Korea doesn’t think China is taking its fears seriously enough.

The Big Freeze Fail
Much A-Doha About Nothing

The Saudis scuppered a petrostate plan to freeze output in Doha this weekend. The plan was doomed from the start.

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