News Analysis
The Best Offense
Congress’s Strategically Myopic Defense Cuts

Some of the Navy’s most useful logistics ships may soon be decommissioned on account of budget cuts. This isn’t the way for the U.S. to maintain its edge over China and other revisionist powers.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Chinese Oil Rig Moves Out of Disputed Territory

China’s removal of an oil rig from waters disputed by Vietnam is unlikely to signal that tensions are easing in the South China Sea.

Westerners in ISIS
Canadian Stars in New Terrorist Recruiting Video

A Canadian convert to Islam who died fighting in Syria is the ‘star’ of ISIS’ newest recruiting video. What happens when the 3,000 or more Western jihadists in Syria decide to come home?

Black Gold Rush
Shale-Rich America is "Indispensable"

American oil production is booming, thanks to shale, and this new supply is helping to offset disruptions abroad. Fracking is averting an international oil crisis.

Immigration Debate
Dems Oppose Reducing Perverse Immigration Incentives

Senate Democrats are opposing changes to a 2008 immigration law that has been fueling the nightmarish scenario unfolding on our borders.

Kansas' Red Dawn
A Republican Revolt Against Brownback

Over one hundred Kansas Republican leaders have endorsed Gov. Brownback’s Democratic opponent. The political costs of Brownback’s policies may be his undoing.

Boom Goes the Dynamite
North Dakotan Shale Boom to "Surge" This Summer

Favorable weather should lead to a “big surge” in production from North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation. This is the energy revolution that keeps on giving.

Deadly Disease
Ebola Outbreak Spikes in Liberia and Sierra Leone

The Ebola death toll has climbed in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and now surpasses 600. Panic is spreading, both within these countries and their neighbors.

Putin's Room to Maneuver
The Fog of War Descends on Eastern Ukraine

Early this morning, an air strike leveled several apartments in the city of Snizhne, killing at least four civilians. Friendly fire or Russian provocation? As the fog of war descends on Ukraine, Putin keeps pushing the limits of plausible deniability.

Renewables Retrenchment
Energy Realism Trumps Green Idealism in Spain

Madrid is set to permit exploratory well drilling for what looks to be a very promising offshore oil play off the coast of the tourist-magnet Canary Islands. Economic and energy security concerns are winning out over environmental wishes.

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