News Analysis
Both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
Abortion: The Great American Exception

More than 40 years after Roe v. Wade, a new report finds that Americans are not only choosing to restrict abortion more tightly, fewer Americans are choosing to have them. American individualism is predicated on a deep respect for human life.

Nothing To See Here
Pakistan: We Won’t Share Nukes with Saudis

Pakistan’s civil government claims that Pakistan will not be sharing their nuclear weapons with Saudi Arabia. Don’t pay too much attention to what they’re saying.

Education Reform
Differences in School Spending, but Not Where You’d Think

A blue/red divide? Coast/interior? How about neither: differences in state spending lead to no easy conclusions about how to improve the nation’s schools.

U.S. Aid Missions
A Better Way to Conduct Missions of Mercy

With the annual humanitarian Pacific Partnership mission underway, it is time to reconsider how we dispense aid to other nations.

Pension Blues
Another Small Win for Sanity

A federal body has released new rules for accurate accounting that make state and muncipal finances and unfunded pension obligations look even worse.

Siberian Shale
So You Think You Can Frack…

Gazprom Neft thinks it can frack Siberian shale even without Western help.

Corker-Menendez and the SFRC
Toward a Better Senate

As Senators prep for Iran oversight, signs of promising changes.

"Peak" Oil?
Britain’s Underground Elephant Gets Bigger

An independent look at a potential “world class” oil discovery in southeast England says it may be even bigger than we thought.

Israel's Arab Friends
Obama ME Policy: Bringing People Together

The Saudis and Israelis “come out of the closet” as friends.

brave new world
China Shocked, Shocked by Fed Data Breach

More than four million federal workers had their personal data comprised by a hack the U.S. is blaming on China. It’s a brave new world.

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