Reforming France
Macron Gets a Dose of Reality

To stay true to his promises, Macron will have to push unpopular structural reforms and budget cuts at the same time.

Crude Economics
What OPEC Is Up Against

These days, shale producers are doing more to affect market prices than petrostates.

Reefer Madness
Legal Weed, Lower Grades

America’s experiment with legal weed is unlikely to be cost-free.

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Original Sins
A Race to Nowhere

Were Jim Crow and American eugenics laws the models for Nazi race law?

The Future of Work
Japan’s Labor Shortage Will Change the World

Coping with the labor shortage in Japan will accelerate robotization, with profound effects for the global economy.

Turning Up The Heat
Trump to Xi: The Honeymoon Is Over

With South Korea’s president in town, Trump is escalating with China on multiple fronts.

"Facts on the Water"
Beijing Plows Ahead in the South China Sea

Trump’s tenure hasn’t deterred China from its expansionist course.

Enviro-Hypocrisy
Japan Doesn’t Have a Chance to Meet Emissions Targets

We are shocked—shocked!

Obamacare Repeal
The Smallness of the Health Debate and the Failure of Elite Imagination

The parties are locked into a zero-sum fight over resources that leaves the underlying deformity of our system unaddressed.

AFTER ISIS
Downfall of the Caliphate

“The mission is to make sure that any foreign fighter who is here, who joined ISIS from a foreign country and came into Syria—they will die here in Syria.”

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