News Analysis
21st Century Households
Millennials as Traditionalists

Millennials may turn out to be more similar to the Baby Boomers than they would like to admit.

Renminbi Rumbling
How Low Can It Go?

Sources are telling reporters that Beijing may intentionally want to devalue by as much 10 percent.

Regime Collapse
Assad Retreats Further

Iran and Russia better move fast if they want to save their client Assad.

Wear and Tear
Quality Up, Price Down

Our tools for measuring economic progress are increasingly not up to the task.

Limping to Paris
The Developed World Is Unprepared for Climate Summit

Just what the green movement needed: more grim news about this December’s climate summit.

Crude Economics
Low Oil Prices Are Here to Stay

A new IEA report shows oil supply outstripping demand by 3 million barrels per day, the biggest such gap in 17 years.

State of the Unions
UK Goes Scott Walker

Blighty to nix automatic collection of public sector union dues.

Education Transformation
Homeschooling Goes Mainstream

The rise of homeschooling is a portrait in miniature of the blue model’s collapse.

The Great Fall of China
China’s Devaluation: Much More Trouble to Come?

China’s devaluation of the yuan are pulling it into the very competition for cheap production that Beijing insists China’s economy has moved beyond.

European Union
That’s Close Enough, Thanks

The EU’s “ever closer union” doesn’t appeal very much to the citizens of northern European countries right now, while southern Europeans wouldn’t mind a tighter embrace.

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