R&D
This Is the Best Green News We’ve Seen All Year

A wealthy group of individuals—led by Bill Gates—just announced a $1 billion fund to help back next-gen clean energy technologies.

Rebuilding America
Dems May Come Around on Privatized Infrastructure

Blue New York’s Governor Cuomo encourages Trump to embrace privatized infrastructure.

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Islam and Europe
The NYT’s Veil Fail

Silencing liberals and moderate conservatives in the debate about Islamic religious practices in Europe will only pave the way for more populist successes.

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US and Russia
The Temptation of a “Grand Bargain”

The temptation to strike a bargain with a great-power rival is one the Romans knew, too. We should resist it.

Higher Education Watch
Speech Codes Decline, But Campus Illiberalism Persists

Campuses are ditching speech codes, but this hasn’t produced a more open campus environment overall.

Only A Pawn In Their Game
Taiwan Fears a Trump Trade-Away

Taiwan is starting to worry that the President-elect sees it as a mere bargaining chip in a larger deal with China.

Terrorism in Egypt
What the Coptic Bombing Means

The attack on a Cairo church strikes a blow at a Christian minority, the Sisi government, and a historic concept of Egyptian nationalism.

Immigration Debate
Democrats Don’t Have the Vocabulary to Oppose Trump’s Labor Secretary

By buying in so fully to the language of cosmopolitanism, the Democrats may have undermined their best defense against a fast food CEO who as Labor Secretary might seek to undo many priorities of the economic Left.

Fake News and False Consciousness
Getting Beyond the Blame Game

Fake news doesn’t make bad voters. Instead, it’s more likely that the apparent appetite for anti-establishment content on social media is a symptom of deep-seated anxiety and dissatisfaction with how things are going.

European Disunion
Back in the USSR

Is the European Union heading for a Soviet-style collapse?

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