News Analysis
Immigration and 2016
Saving America from a European Future

In Trump, the GOP has a white identity politics problem. The answer is not to move left on immigration.

Pop!
What’s Behind China’s Devaluation?

China’s renminbi devaluation is huge economic news, and according to a keen bit of analysis it also tells us something important about how bad the real Chinese economic figures, as opposed to the inflated official ones, are looking right now.

The Higher Ed Bubble
Millions Late on Student Loan Repayments

Students just aren’t earning enough money as a result of their degrees to pay for the cost of getting them. Our higher ed mess is strikingly similar to our health care mess.

Parsing The Kingdom
Insights From a Saudi General

The WSJ sat down with a former Saudi General to talk regional strategy. It can be hard to read the tea leaves in a conversation like this, but the outlines of how the Saudis might be looking at the region after the Iran deal are emerging.

Smart Green Tech
Our Newest Climate Change Weapon: Nanofiber?

Researchers have discovered a way to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and use it to create high-end nanofibers.

America's Asia Policy
Beijing: What Pivot?

A new Pentagon report on Beijing’s aggressive play for territory suggests that China sees the U.S. as unable or unwilling to do anything more than gesture at trying to stop its expansion.

the not-so-demilitarized zone
Scary Signs from the Korean Peninsula

After a round of cross-border shelling between the Koreas, Seoul and Washington are worried enough to halt annual joint military exercises that Pyongyang protests.

neo-victorianism
What Kind of Liberalism Won the Culture Wars?

The type of social liberalism that won the culture wars is a distinctive mix of cultural libertarianism on the one hand and cultural Victorianism on the other.

Europe's Immigration Crisis
Of Nationalists and Cosmopolitans

Today, both in Europe and the U.S., the technocrats and the cosmopolitans have leaned too far ahead over their skis. One of the consequences is the revival of the ugly side of nationalist politics.

Pyrrhic victory
After Iran Deal, Democrats Will Own the Middle East

The President has enough power to get the deal done—but it will likely be a Pyrrhic victory.

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