News Analysis
Title IX
On Campus Sex Policies, the Shoe Is On the Other Foot

A Trump official believes the Obama administration’s Title IX enforcement regime has railroaded many innocent young men.

Trade Winds
Business Booming Between China and North Korea

Beijing’s trade with Pyongyang is up 10.5% this year.

The Lonesome Death of Liu Xiaobo
Xi Jinping, New Defender of Liberal Order, Lets Chinese Dissident Die

Liu Xiaobo’s death puts the lie to those who would paint China as a defender of the liberal order.

Showdown in Brazil
Lula Gets Convicted

But he remains popular, and his supporters believe that he is being unfairly punished for sins that all the other politicians commit.

TAI elsewhere
By Attacking Western Civ, the Left Empowers the Alt-Right

Why the liberal reaction to Trump’s speech in Warsaw was so destructive.

Silicon Valley plays hardball
Tech Companies Aren’t Different

America’s biggest internet company has been operating an academic influence campaign to advance is political interests.

Crude Economics
Significant Oil Discovery off Coast of Mexico

Don’t look now, but the Age of Oil isn’t over quite yet.

Feeding the Future
GM Bananas Could Help Blind Children See

And save hundreds of thousands of lives, to boot.

International Development
Merkel Sets Her Sights on Africa

Merkel’s new interest in Africa is a belated acknowledgment of a basic reality: Europe’s migration problem can’t be fixed without a viable Africa strategy.

overreach
Trump DHS Weighs Restricting Foreign Students

Trump administration immigration hawks seem to be getting cocky in the wake of their partial travel ban victory at the Supreme Court.

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