News Analysis
Higher Education Watch
Civil Liberties Group to Challenge Federal Due Process Crackdown

A lawsuit could help rein in the overzealous bureaucrats in the Department of Education.

Corruption in Brazil
Discredited Brazilian Left Cries Foul

Those on the left who want to blame some kind of vast right wing conspiracy for the collapse of the PT’s popularity are barking up the wrong tree.

China's Crackdowns
Beijing to Chinese Citizens: Watch Yourselves

Xi Jinping’s China is doubling down on its 70s nostalgia, reestablishing a Maoist system of social control that puts a policeman on every block and an informer in every social network.

Iran-Saudi Rivalry
Will Pakistan Side with Saudi Arabia against Iran?

The army wants a tougher anti-Iran line than the civilian politicians and, if history is any guide, we should expect that the army will get what it wants.

Beware of Greeks Bearing Debts
Wikileaks Produces Unity in Europe—Against the IMF

Leaked discussions of Greek bailouts spark furor from Berlin to Athens.

Kleptocracy Watch
Clean Up the UN

The ‘international space’ is poorly governed, and the press doesn’t watch it as closely as it watches national politics.

Brexit and Beyond
Will Economic Worries Keep the UK in the EU?

Brexit referendum leading to slowdown in investment, fall in pound sterling.

The Panama Papers
Big Leak, Big Corruption, Deep Rot

A massive leak from a Panamanian law firm specializing in setting up offshore tax havens is helping to expose the moral rot at the core of our societies.

Big If True
Alawis Distance Themselves from Assad and Shi‘a Islam?

A new document, purportedly from the leaders of Syria’s Alawite sect, could be a game-changer for the Middle East.

media watch
America Shouldn’t Have an Aristocracy

The slavishness of the press establishment toward the political establishment sometimes reveals itself in reporters’ bizarre unconscious assumptions

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