News Analysis
Land of the Rising Gun
Abe: Japan Won’t Get Dragged into US Wars

According to the Japanese Prime Minister, under the newly reinterpreted constitution Japan won’t be obligated to join America’s global conflicts. But in his remarks, he made a point of leaving room for Japan to choose to fight by America’s side.

A Correction
North Korea Fakes Submarine Missile Test

The images of a missile being launched off a submarine turn out to be doctored, according to Pentagon sources.

To Drill or Not To Drill?
Texas Fights Cities for the Right to Frack

Texas made it illegal for local governments to enact fracking bans, but this battle for control over the shale boom is only just beginning.

Away from the East
EU to Swim the Backstroke?

EU leaders are making noises about backpedaling on vague promises to their eastern neighbors about European accession—as Russia gleefully rubs its hands.

Game of Thrones in Asia
U.S. Sends CNN, Spy Plane Over S. China Sea

Journalists were taken aboard a U.S. spy plane as it crossed over China’s newly built islands on the Fiery Cross and Mischief Reefs in the South China Sea.

Smart Green Policy
Better Tech, Greener World

Wins for human beings in agriculture and forestry are not losses for the environment, thanks to an innovative concept called “decoupling.”

ISIS Strikes
Will ISIS Exploit Migrant Influx Into Europe?

A Moroccan terrorist suspected of involvement in the bombing of Tunisia’s Bardo museum has been arrested in Italy, stoking fears that ISIS could use migrant flows to get its members into Western countries.

Wrestling the Bear Market
Crashing Crude Crunches Petrostate Coffers

A bearish crude market has the world’s petrostates nervously inspecting their now rapidly shrinking sovereign wealth funds.

Peak Blue
Blues Score Pyrrhic Victory in Los Angeles

Progressives have scored another victory for the blue model on the West Coast. But true victory for the working and middle classes lies beyond band-aid solutions.

The Afterparty Continues
What the Media Should Ask Hillary

Libya is a mess. Curious reporters should be asking questions about our past and future strategy there.

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