India Ascendant?
In Pakistan, India Goes Up Against China, Too

India finds a way to kill two birds with one stone.

Crime and Punishment
Even Vox Thinks the Brock Turner Backlash Is Out of Control

The perils of policy-making-by-outrage.

Tsai's Taiwan
US Set to Greenlight Taiwan Arms Sale?

President Obama promised a world that would rely less on hard power. Well…

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AFTER ISIS
A Plan for Protecting Iraq’s Minority Communities

A Nineveh Plain Province would help to save minority communities in Iraq and be a model for a more decentralized and secure country.

the virtues of federalism
High-Earners Flee Blue States

A challenge for blue model partisans.

Crude Economics
Trump Advisor Wants Petrostates to Jack Up Gas Prices

Does Donald Trump’s top energy advisor really want Americans to pay more at the pump?

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New World Disorder
It’s Kim Jong-un’s World; We’re Just Living In It

We don’t live in the world the “liberal internationalists” have imagined exists; we live in a world where, more and more, the law of the jungle applies.

Pivot to Asia
Bad Optics

This visit won’t make the Obama Administration’s middling legacy in Asia look any better.

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Needed:
A Transitional International Administration for South Sudan

Aside from standing back and letting catastrophe unfold in South Sudan, what are our options?

Pivot to Asia
NYT Admits Obama’s Asia Policy Is No Success

It will be interesting to see how the intellectual and journalistic establishments process the gap between what Obama said he would accomplish and what actually happened on his watch.

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