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2016
Trump’s Know-Nothing Foreign Policy

Who needs expertise, when you have the “art of the deal”?

Still Boondogglin'
Biofuel Mandates Bleed American Refineries Dry

The largest U.S. refinery said that it could pay $750 million this year to comply with zany biofuel quotas.

Post Coup
Erdogan Goes After… the Stock Analysts?

Yes, you read that right: writing about the consequences of the coup in Turkey gets your license revoked.

red dawn flickers
Kansas’ Credit Rating Goes Down the Tubes

The fiscal picture in Kansas continues to darken as the state reels from Governor Sam Brownback’s budget-busting tax cuts.

U.S. Strategy Adrift
The Consequences of an Incomplete Pivot

A strong ruling from the Hague should have given lots of interested parties cover to band together and push back against Beijing. But it isn’t working out like that.

Higher Education Watch
College Students Are Studying Less Than You Think

Full-time college students spend less time studying than they did in high school.

Democracy in South Africa
South Africa’s Most Important Elections Since Mandela

If the pro-business opposition is successful in prying major cities away from the ANC, these elections could go down in history as the beginnings of genuine multiparty democracy in South Africa.

After Obama
The World Is at War and the Peace Has Been Lost

Pope Francis hits the nail right on the head.

America Adrift
Turkey and the Ruins of U.S. Foreign Policy

Erdogan’s pivot to Russia is the latest indicator of the ruins of U.S. foreign policy.

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2016
The Ballad of Barack and Hillary

She was from Mars. He was from Venus.

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