News Analysis
Gulf Crisis—Palestine Opportunity
Squeezing Qatar to Make Hamas Scream

As the Saudis and Emiratis try to force Qatar into the anti-Iran front, it’s possible to imagine a post-Hamas Palestine.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Tillerson Presses China

Could the Trump Administration be turning a page in Asia?

Higher Education Watch
Is College Working?

New data calls into question basic assumptions about higher education.

Robotics Revolution
Robots Could Block Path out of Poverty

The idea that technological progress brings peace and prosperity is one that Americans are instinctively inclined to believe, but the bumps in the road can be ferocious.

Good Green News
Captured Carbon Is Powering U.S. Oil

It’s an unlikely (but valuable) relationship between clean tech and fossil fuels.

blue model crackup
Ratings Agency Calls Pension Returns into Question

State and local pension funds’ bluff is being called.

After the Pivot
Mattis to Asia: Rest Assured, and Bear with Us

The Defense Secretary’s speech at Shangri-La convincingly articulated some elements of Trump’s Asia policy—but it was not without its contradictions.

Gulf Crisis
Gulf States Cut Ties with Qatar

The crisis in the Gulf escalates as Qatar’s neighbors cut ties and close borders.

Europe Today
Macron Surging in Polls

We are witness to an epochal realignment in French politics.

Pipeline Politics
Oil Starts Flowing Through the Dakota Access Pipeline

The pipeline will help ease supply bottlenecks coming out of North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation.

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