Growing Green
US Energy Emissions Keep Falling

America’s shift to shale gas is reaping major environmental benefits.

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Getting Serious
Khan Sheikhoun, Shayrat Air Base, and Now What?

I wrote my first response to the U.S. cruise missile attack on Shayrat Air Base on April 7, 2017, at 2:30 p.m. EDT—in other words, about 18 hours after the attack. A great deal more has happened since, and it is in the nature of a crisis that this be so. One of the characteristics […]

Palm Sunday Bombings
Barbaric Bombings in Egypt Targets Copts, Sisi

ISIS claims responsibility for Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic Christians. But the attack will also badly hurt Egypt’s economy by driving away tourists in droves.

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.

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Getting Serious
Russia in Syria: What Next?

In the short-term Putin can shrug off the U.S. strikes, but Russia’s long-term strategy in Syria is coming under strain.

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Art of the Deal
The Last Conservative Statesman

With the “art of the deal” back in the vogue in American diplomacy, the career of the Fifth Marquess of Lansdowne is overdue for a reappraisal.

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.

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