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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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