Blue Model Blues
The California Pension Bomb Just Got More Explosive

CalPERS’s annual return didn’t come close to meeting its annual target.

South China Sea on a Boil
Philippines Turns Down Talks Amidst Chinese “Combat Air Patrols”

The muscle flexing apparently didn’t help China’s overtures to the Philippines for an alternative, bilateral settlement.

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Information Age
Good for the Media, Bad for America

How serious political reporting became a luxury good amid a mass-market media circus.

Asia's Game of Thrones
China Renews $600 Million Down Payment on Cambodia

Cambodia has straddled the line but resisted crossing into Chinese client status.

TAI Event
Are Plutocrats Drowning Our Republic?

If you are in Washington DC later this week, we’d like to invite you to an event we are organizing at the Hudson Institute

Ugly From Every Angle
UN Unhappy with Its (Former?) Green Paragon, Germany

The climate change envoy for the United Nations expressed disappointment in the poor green example Germany has been setting of late.

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The Russian President Backtracks
Putin Dumps Doping Scandal Officials, Unexpectedly

Vladimir Putin rarely acts under pressure, and is loath to discipline loyal underlings. Yet with the Russian doping subversion scandal blowing up, he has done both.

Political Decay
The Make-Believe Supreme Court and the Coming Constitutional Crisis

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s comments on the election show that the fiction of the non-partisan justice is fraying, but the looming ideological transformation of the Court threatens to vitiate it altogether.

Erdogan's Endgame
The Purge: Coup Year

Erdogan is removing thousands of soldiers and judges from their posts. There are effectively no bounds on the Turkish president’s power.

Higher Education Watch
Bigger Subsidies, Higher Prices

Hillary Clinton’s college plan might not work exactly as advertised.

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