Chicago Blues
Students Lose, Wall Street Wins in Blue Model Merry-Go-Round

Wall Street emerges as an unexpected beneficiary of the corrupt bargain between Chicago’s leadership and its teachers unions.

Crude Economics
Petrostate Production Soars Ahead of OPEC Cut

The cartel is talking about cuts, but all its members are doing is ramping up their output.

California Watch
Golden State Rolls Out Private Sector Retirement Plan

With the right oversight, Secure Choice just might turn out to be a limited, responsible program that makes a dignified retirement more attainable for a new generation of workers.

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Ukraine
Justice for the Victims of Flight MH17

The just-released Dutch-led report on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine should bolster the case for renewing sanctions on Putin’s lawless regime.

New Europe
Orban’s Big Referendum Win

Eurocrats may try to convince themselves that the Hungarian migrant referendum was insignificant. They would be foolish to do so.

Single Payer Pivot
The Gray Lady Is Singing. Does That Mean It’s Over?

Even the hardiest defenders of Obamacare are now having to concede that it looks more and more like the inevitable failure the critics have always said it was.

WRM Elsewhere
Wilson’s European Triumph

Europe wasn’t always quite as idealistically naive as it appears to be today. For the EU to avoid catastrophe, its leaders need to rediscover their predecessors’ hard-headed realism.

Latin Lefty Meltdown
Maduro Crows over Kerry Meeting

Maduro’s outburst points to a challenge for the U.S: how to best balance being helpful and engaged in Venezuela’s slow-motion catastrophe while denying the wretched ruling regime any PR wins.

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RIP
Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922-2016)

Historian of the Nazi Era and political analyst of totalitarianism.

The Global Immigration Crisis
Turkey Holds Back Skilled Syrian Refugees from U.S.

The move echoes practices Europe has complained about as well.

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