News Analysis
Terrible Timing
Regulations Strangling Small Business Growth

At just the moment when our economy desperately needs a wave of innovation and small-scale entrepreneurialism, the Left has decided to do everything in its power to make the American system as inflexible and corporatist as possible.

Enviro-Mental
Germany’s Energiewende Finds the Sour Spot

Germany’s energy transition has a remarkable ability to consistently fail in its objectives.

Terrorism and Tourism
Terrorism Delivers Another Blow To North African Tourism

The latest terror attack at the Marhaba resort in Tunisia continues a worrying trend of terrorists targeting countries economic engines, a trend which Tunisia’s tourism industry can ill-afford.

Game of Thrones
China Finishes Some Islands

China’s foreign ministry announced that it’s done with some of its land reclamation projects in the Spratlys. But that doesn’t resolve the territorial issues.

Reforming Delivery
Goldman Sachs: Med Tech Could Save Over $300 Billion

A new report by Goldman Sachs predicts that innovations in medical tech are poised to save the country over $300 billion. Some of the most promising avenues for bringing down costs lie outside the kind of policy tinkering the ACA represents.

Barbarism
The Wilsonians’ Folly

The horrors in South Sudan should remind us that the best efforts of human rights activists all too often yield deplorable outcomes.

Middle East Muddle
Jordanians Preparing to Enter Syria?

Humanitarian and possibly military intervention planned.

Default Drama
Ukraine to Creditors: Do Your Worst

Ukraine is bargaining over debt-restructuring like it has nothing left to lose. Because it doesn’t.

Future Power
Nuclear Power the World’s Great Green Hope

A number of new nuclear technologies with some extraordinary promise are threatening to shake up the industry.

Middle East Aflame
Turkey Threatens To Invade Syria

Turkey could wind up attacking targets inside Syria—not primarily to counteract ISIS, but to prevent the emergence of a Kurdish state.

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