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It's the Economy
Does Israel’s Trade Follow Its Foreign Relations?

Despite speculation about a pivot toward China, Russia, and India, and away from the United States and Europe, the answer is: no. And Israel is the better for it.

Reform Minded
Is Argentina the Next Shale Darling?

Only if it makes some difficult, unpopular market reforms.

Pension Meltdown
Oregon Can’t Postpone Judgment Day Forever

Oregon’s pension board head weeps in public as the growing budgetary burden threatens to crush schools across the state. This can’t end well.

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Russia and the West
No Bailouts for Putin

Western governments should block private business from helping to finance Russian aggression in Ukraine and Syria.

India-Pakistan
The Explosive India–Pakistan Situation

Tick tick tick.

Blue Civil War
Obamacare Dysfunction Splits the Left

The battle over the future of the Affordable Care Act will not be over for quite some time.

Much Ado About Nothing
Paris Climate Deal Inches Closer to an Iota of Relevance

Ban Ki-Moon thinks the Paris agreement will be finalized by the end of the year, but will it matter?

America Today
The One Political Institution Surviving the Trust Implosion

Trust in American political institutions has declined precipitously, with one important exception.

Our Blue Model Immigration Bureaucracies
USCIS Accidentally Grants Citizenship to 800 People

Nearly a thousand people from special risk countries were flagged for deportation. Instead, they were made citizens.

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Religion and Modernity
The Canonization of Mother Teresa

For most religious people today modernity and religion relate to each other not as either/or but as both/and.

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