After five years of a president who was going to rebuild trust with key allies in Europe and with important rising powers like Brazil, this is where we are: Brazil and Germany are jointly sponsoring a resolution to the floor of the UN General Assembly condemning invasions of privacy. The resolution doesn’t name names, but […]

After sixty years of socialist revolution in Cuba, it appears that the proletariat still prefer vile capitalist entertainment to socially uplifting official films. Raul Castro is having none of it. He sent out a decree shutting down scores of private movie and video game parlors run out of the backs of officially-sanctioned restaurants. The BBC: […]

The botched rollout of healthcare.gov shows why the US desperately needs reform of its public sector.

This week, we took a look at how mass immigration in Europe is posing a serious threat to the welfare states that most of the continent has been building for the past half-century: Europe’s social engineers of the last generation seem to have assumed that the “dark forces” of nationalism and chauvinism had been left […]

Over the weekend, four leading climate scientists begged the green movement to see reason on nuclear energy. The group—which included the scientist cum-activist who ominously (and wrongly) predicted that developing Canadian tar sands oil would be “game over” for the planet—sent a letter to a number of green groups making the case for the latest […]

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, speaks during a conference at the Ronald Reagan Building, October 30,2013 in Washington, DC. General Alexander spoke about Cybersecurity at a conference hosted by Bloomberg Government. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images.

From the day Obamacare was passed, Obama knew that getting the website up and running would be the key to the success of the law, and likely his presidency. Yet for the next two years, he and his team were completely unprepared for the task of actually getting it done, leaving us with the mess […]

The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a think tank in Seoul, released a troubling new poll this week that found serious levels of agitation and distrust for Japan among South Koreans. The poll asked one thousand South Korean adults if they felt “militarily threatened” by Japan, and 62 percent said yes. The political relationship between the […]

Here’s a sentence that will make a green’s head spin: China needs to frack in order to clear its smoggy skies.That’s because burning coal is one of the biggest drivers of Chinese air pollution. As the Northern hemisphere bundles up for winter, Chinese urbanites are stocking up on face masks as more coal plants come […]

Pensioners and others near retirement living on the shoreline may be surprised to find that they’re insuring their own houses this hurricane season. That’s because many of pension funds they have their money with are beginning to invest heavily in catastrophe bonds in pursuit of higher returns. These kinds of bonds allow investors to collect money from disaster […]