News Analysis
Planning Green
Teleworkers Catching up to Strap-Hangers

So why are urban planners still “investing” in next-gen mass transit like demand will only grow?

Asia's Game of Thrones
At G20, Xi and Modi Ignore Tensions

The two leaders smiled for the cameras while their troops are engaged in the worst border standoff in years.

Reading Between the Lines
Putin Makes His Pitch To German Business

In an op-ed for Handelsblatt, Putin couches his case for sanctions relief in liberal pieties.

Dreams vs. Reality
Utopianism Alive and Well at the UN

What’s a bigger waste of time than the G20? How about working to pass a global treaty outlawing nuclear weapons?

Turning Up The Heat
U.S. Pokes China With a Double Flyover

Ahead of tough talks at the G20, the U.S. Air Force sends a strong signal in the East and South China Seas.

No Puppet
How To Read the Trump-Putin Meeting

Is outreach to Russia a wise move? Probably not. But President Trump is going in stronger than most give him credit for.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Vietnam Goes Bold In the South China Sea

It’s been drilling for oil, defying China, and making a public show of solidarity with the U.S. and India.

Lessons from History
Breaking at NYT: Communists Were Anti-American Soviet Tools

It will be interesting to read the pieces that come out 25 to 50 years too late as the august Gray Lady awakens to other important news.

Burundi on the Brink
Tutsi Officers Purged from Burundi’s Military

It’s the latest warning sign from a country where the chances of a coup, a civil war, or a genocide are increasing by the day.

Survey Says
Russia Still Has Many Friends in Europe

Especially in Orthodox-majority countries.

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