News Analysis
Blue Model Death Watch
Australia’s Conservatives Eye Privatization

Could Australia’s experiments in privatization be a model for the United States?

The Secret War
Threats Rise But Intel Spending Going Down

Spending cuts threaten intelligence capabilities—especially in IT.

Blue Model Blues
Adjuncts Rising, Rising, Rising

Like all decaying blue institutions, the university still serves insiders quite well, even as outsiders struggle.

Biomass
Why Japan Wants to Fell and Burn Its Forests

Japan hopes to use its forests as a domestic energy resource, but let’s not kid ourselves: This is no grand green solution.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Pakistan Fights to Protect Chinese-Managed Port

Both Pakistan and China want to see the new, multibillion-dollar Silk Road reach the port of Gwadar on the Indian Ocean.

Education Innovation
Reviving an Old Model in a New Way

A piano tuning company is operating an apprenticeship model adapted for the twenty-first century.

Biofuel Boondoggle
America’s Biggest Corn Ethanol Producer Rethinking Future

Cheap oil and waning political support have the top U.S. corn ethanol producer reevaluating the industry.

Obama's Syria Policy
Aleppo, Center of Rebel Power, Besieged

It sure looks like Assad and his Russian allies have little interest in finding the “common ground” on Syria the Obama administration has been frantically searching for.

The Sunni-Shi'a War
UAE to Join the Party in Syria?

Emiratis declare they would dispatch ground forces to Syria—should the U.S. take the lead.

North Korea Fallout
DPRK Missile Launch Empowers Regional Hawks

Pyongyang’s bad behavior (and Beijing’s inability and/or refusal to control it) pushes politics in both South Korea and Japan to the right.

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