News Analysis
The European Immigration Crisis
Europe Tightens Border with Russia

After Turkish deal & Brussels bombing, border security looms even larger.

Global Blues
The Death of the Blue Model Isn’t Just a First World Problem

Just as manufacturing and information processing in clerical occupations are collapsing in the advanced countries, these sources of employment are drying up in the third world as well.

Gazproblems
Warsaw Weakens Gazprom’s Grip

A new LNG import terminal and a proposed pipeline to Norway could help Poland diversify away from Russian gas.

North Korea Fallout
China Asks for Flexibility on Nork Sanctions

China is caught between a rock and a hard place, with its only ally on one side and more powerful regional players on the other.

Higher Ed Shake Up
Toward a College Testing System

Students at top schools have a leg up in many professional fields no matter how much they learned or didn’t learn. A standardized college testing system might help address this problem.

Education Reform
Buried Treasure in K-12

A new study suggests schools are using the wrong set of characteristics to make teacher hiring decisions.

Pension Blues
California Comes Clean

California’s official balance sheet is in much worse shape this year than last year—and that’s a good thing.

The Global China Bubble
China Goes on a Global Shopping Spree

Chinese firms can invest elsewhere because of China’s decades of success, but that doesn’t explain why they’re doing so with such urgency now.

Future Power
America’s Aging Nuclear Problem

More than a third of US nuclear power capacity is due to go offline by 2035. That’s a big problem.

campus speech wars
The Wrong Way to Stand Up for Israel

While they clearly have noble intentions, the University of California’s Jewish community and its allies have reached too far with the current language equating anti-Semisim and anti-Zionism.

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