Profound Philosophy
A New-Sprung Kremlin Thinker Tanker Tries to Expand Germans’ Minds

Former Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin, on the outs with Putin, is trying to buy back his respectability by financing his own Kremlin-aligned think tank. It might be working.

Market Failure
Carbon Markets Are Failing on a Global Scale

From the US to Europe to Asia, the price of carbon is way too low to affect serious change in emissions habits.

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Nationalism Rising
When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism

And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two.

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After the Summit
NATO Must Invest Real Money to Stay in Business

Europe has yet another chance to get serious about defense spending. Will it squander the moment?

finding meaning
How We Respond

As national as our conversations may sometimes feel in the Internet age, the most meaningful exchanges still happen in the car on the way to school, in the pews before prayers begin, at community dinners, and during the lunch break.

Rumble in the Jungle
2016’s Wildest Election Isn’t Where You Think

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s presidential election is shaping up to be the biggest match since George Foreman and Muhammad Ali clashed here in 1974.

NMG in the WSJ
What the Diplomats Really Think of Hillary

According to one former foreign service officer, not much.

Resilient Fracking
Another Sign Shale Is Rebounding

For the fifth time in six weeks, America’s oil rig count increased. That’s good news for shale.

Blue Model Blues
20th-Century Thinking at the Century Foundation

When it comes to the changes in the economy and the end of the blue model, it’s clear the Left doesn’t have many answers (yet).

Spy vs. Spy
Why Russia Published Footage of an FSB Agent Beating an American in Moscow

Some might call it “dominance geopolitics”. Will the White House let it slide?

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