News Analysis
Education Gets Smart
Stuff Learned Trumps Time Served in the Badger State

The key metric in education should be how much material students master, not how much time they spend in class.

Like Father Like Daughter
Le Pen Denies French Complicity In Holocaust

So much for rehabilitating the National Front.

Green Travails
California’s Broken Carbon Market Survives Court Challenge

Though perhaps it would have been more merciful to just have killed this disaster of a policy.

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Trump Turns Up the Heat on North Korea

With a carrier group en route to the Korean peninsula, Pyongyang should be nervous after the Syria strikes.

A Hello to Arms
Israel and India Reach Historic Weapons Deal

The budding friendship just got $2 billion bigger.

Feeding the Future
Let Them Eat Caterpillars?

Could caterpillar farms be the answer to our food security problem?

Golden State Blues
How Kamala Harris Killed California Pension Reform

The state’s newly-minted Senator tilted the playing field in favor of public sector unions.

Crude Economics
Shale Versus the World

Why petrostates are in peril and frackers are on firmer ground—in one simple chart.

Legacy of the Red Line
More Questions for Obama on Syria

Did the Obama Administration conceal its knowledge of Assad’s sarin facilities?

Greeks Bearing Debts
Greece Clears a Bailout Hurdle

But it’s not time to break out the champagne just yet.

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