Higher Education Watch
How Colleges Can Revive Free Speech on Campus

A simple (partial) fix for the campus free speech crisis.

AFTER ISIS
Eastern Syria Heats Up

The U.S. shootdown of a Syrian plane is only the first sign of the coming troubles.

The Death of Otto Warmbier
Pyongyang Tests Trump’s Jacksonian Steel

The death of Otto Warmbier could be the clearest test yet of Trump’s Jacksonian instincts.

don't get complacent
An Elite-Public Schism Over the EU

The wounds tearing at the EU are far from healed.

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A Mirror up to Nature
Shakespeare’s Politics

We know little of his political opinions, but there’s much we can learn of them from the recurrent themes of his works.

Abenomics Lives
IMF Cheers Abenomics

Shinzo Abe’s troubled economic program seems to have turned a page, but it’s too early to declare mission accomplished.

A Foul Challenge
Using GMOs to Solve Cattle’s Gas Problem

Researchers are genetically modifying cow gut bacteria to help reduce methane emissions.

Sayeth the Supremes
Notorious RBG Lets Down Campus Activists

The full spectrum of the legal establishment is united in affirming America’s expansive free speech tradition.

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India's Call for Arms
Lockheed and India Partner Up on F-16 Deal

A sign of closer defense ties before Modi visits the U.S. — and bad news for Pakistan.

No Puppet
Still Waiting for Evidence of Trump’s Russia Collusion

The Trump-Russia collusion narrative is driving the Administration to self-destruct. But it is still not supported by the evidence.

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