News Analysis
Asia's Game of Thrones
China Rushes To Rescue Pakistan

As Pakistan’s trade gap with China widens, Beijing has been quietly bailing them out.

Education Transformation
The Vanishing Liberal Arts Degree

Students are majoring in liberal arts at the lowest rate since 1948—and maybe even since 1900, depending on how you look at things.

All in the Timing
China Signals New Steel Cuts

Another symbolic gesture to Trump?

machine politics
Why the Clintons Won’t Go Away

Even though Hillary Clinton lost two elections, the Clinton machine is still very much in place.

After the MOAB
Deadliest Taliban Attack on Afghan Army as Mattis Arrives in Kabul

Secretary Mattis arrives in Kabul on a surprise visit after the deadliest attack on the Afghan military since the start of the war.

Asia's Game of Thrones
China’s New Carrier (Almost) Ready for Launch

It won’t transform the balance of power overnight, but it may spook the neighbors.

EU's Future
Macron Wins the First Round

Will a win for the “radical center” signal anything more than a slow decline of the status quo toward failure?

Blue Boondoggles
Paying for Silicon Valley’s Transit Upgrade

If federalism means anything at all, it means that states and cities should, unless some grave emergency exists, be responsible for their own transit and transportation infrastructure.

Power Shift
The UK’s Day Without Coal

For the first time in more than 130 years, the UK is going a day without burning coal for power.

Money
Housing Is America’s Preferred Wealth-Creating Machine

It’s vital that we make sure that the great wealth-creating machine is ready for the millennial generation.

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