News Analysis
Enviro-Mental
French Consumers Brace for Green Power Rate Hike

State-supported renewables are set to send French electricity bills up next year.

the press and the right
GOP Rips MSM

The most devastating takedowns of last night’s Republican presidential debate were directed not at candidates, but at the press.

Before Sunday's Elections...
Turkish Government Seizes Opposition TV Stations

“We are now directing this broadcast,” official declares, as cops drag out journalist in headlock.

Fracking Fail
The Failed Promise of European Shale

Cue up a mournful dirge for the slow death of Europe’s once-vaunted shale hopes.

Social Engineering
China Ends One-Child Policy

It may be that even if they are allowed to have multiple children, Chinese parents will still choose to only have one.

Gazproblems
Turkey Takes Gazprom to Court

Ankara has filed for international arbitration as it looks for cheaper gas prices from Russia’s Gazprom.

Are you PC?
Campus Free Speech Poll: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A helpful new nationwide survey of college students’ attitudes toward PC-related issues gets us somewhat closer to understanding how college students really feel about political correctness, trigger warnings, and freedom of speech.

South China Sea
Does Obama Have a Plan for the South China Sea?

We find ourselves worried that the President hasn’t properly thought through even one of his wiser foreign policy maneuvers.

Migrant Mess
Austria to Seal Off Border with Slovenia

The likelihood of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding all along the Balkan peninsula just got a lot higher.

Prison Reform
Study Finds Evidence of Ferguson Effect

A new study suggests “Ferguson Effect” is real. Here’s why that could be a good thing for criminal justice reform.

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