Good Green News
Captured Carbon Is Powering U.S. Oil

It’s an unlikely (but valuable) relationship between clean tech and fossil fuels.

blue model crackup
Ratings Agency Calls Pension Returns into Question

State and local pension funds’ bluff is being called.

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Russia & The West
Breathing Room for the Kremlin

The West’s new pragmatism could be a shot in the arm for Russia’s decaying system of personalized power.

After the Pivot
Mattis to Asia: Rest Assured, and Bear with Us

The Defense Secretary’s speech at Shangri-La convincingly articulated some elements of Trump’s Asia policy—but it was not without its contradictions.

Gulf Crisis
Gulf States Cut Ties with Qatar

The crisis in the Gulf escalates as Qatar’s neighbors cut ties and close borders.

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The Middle East
The Six Day and Fifty Years War

The war itself was quick and militarily decisive, but the political aftermath has been anything but.

Europe Today
Macron Surging in Polls

We are witness to an epochal realignment in French politics.

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The Real Gap
Why Scholars and Policymakers Disagree

Those who study international security and those who practice it see the same world through very different conceptual lenses.

Pipeline Politics
Oil Starts Flowing Through the Dakota Access Pipeline

The pipeline will help ease supply bottlenecks coming out of North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation.

Immigration and History
The Gray Lady Rediscovers 1924

One cheer—but no more, as many of the lessons are missed.

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