News Analysis
Brazil's Depression
Will These Be the Olympics from Hell?

The bad news just keeps coming.

Asia's Game of Thrones
India to Help Vietnam Spy on China

Are we witnessing a shift in India’s stance vis-à-vis China?

Blue Model Blowup
Detroit’s Teacher Union Meltdown

Detroit’s teachers have called coordinated “sick-outs” that amount to a strike—and strikes by public sector employees are illegal in Michigan.

Trouble in Central Asia
13,000 Beards Shaved in Tajikistan to Fight Radicalism

Forced shavings just one of the measures police are resorting to.

Tango Nuevo
Argentina to Pay Back “Vulture” Creditors

Macri takes painful, necessary step to right Buenos Aires’ finances.

The European Immigration Crisis
Nothing So Permanent As Temporary Measures

Germany may close borders for up to two years.

France à la Modi
Hollande Goes to India

India and France each have lots of things the other wants.

Foreign Policy
GOP Ditches Jefferson

A new poll shows the partisan gap on strengthening the military is the widest it has been in fifteen years.

American Power
Report: U.S. Losing Influence in Asia

New report on Asia claims that “[t]he balance of military power in the region is shifting against the United States.”

PC Campus Culture
A Win for Sanity at Oberlin

Repudiating campus protesters isn’t enough to fix the modern university, but it’s a good start.

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