Francis Fukuyama, the chairman of the board at TAI, spoke today at the New America Foundation about his new book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. Here’s a recording of the event.

Thanks to fracking, America is a major global supplier of oil and gas, and that has both economic and geopolitical benefits.

You know things are not going very well for your Middle East policy when Jimmy Carter comes swinging for you.

The states that gave the most to charity in 2012 voted for Romney, and the heightened religiosity of red states may be what spurs them to be so generous. Religion encourages charity, and the increasing marginalization of religious institutions should worry us all.

China finishes building a runway on a disputed Paracel Island while the Philippines works to make its case against Chinese expansionism to the UN. Asian geopolitics is still a high-stakes and dangerous contest, no matter how distracted the West gets.

Americans could learn a lot about consumer-directed health care from the successes of other countries, if only cherished health care myths didn’t blind us to those lessons. In the latest issue of the magazine, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry dissects those myths, and points to a way forward for health care reform.

The Philadelphia school reform commission has thrown down the gauntlet in its fight with the teachers’ union over health insurance contributions.

In a sharp editorial, the Financial Times outlines some of the fundamental inconsistencies with Germany’s clean energy transition—most notably Merkel’s decision to phase out nuclear power, an effectively zero-carbon energy source.

A committee in Connecticut created to investigate the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting is recommending onerous new burdens on homeschooling parents whose children have “emotional or behavioral disabilities”—even though the shooter was in public school for longer than he was homeschooled.

The fighting in Kobani and continued advance of ISIS on the Turkish border has spurred Turkey’s President and PM to suggest they would be willing to commit ground troops.