The New Europe
Populist Anti-Semitism Keeps Popping Up

AfD members quit in Holocaust-denial fight in Germany.

race and justice
A Silver Lining for Conservatives in the Affirmative Action Ruling?

A leading law professor’s reading suggests that there is more to Fisher vs. Texas than meets the eye.

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O Death
Ralph Stanley, RIP

The last of the founding fathers of bluegrass banjo “has gone to be with the Lord.”

The Global China Bubble
China Up or China Down?

The foundations of international Chinese expansion are probably even shakier than those of a retreating West.

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Religion & Other Curiosities
Day of the Tyrants?

As democratic progress stalls around the world, what is required on both sides of the Atlantic is the emergence of political leaders who are both hard-nosed and morally responsible. If only one could advertise!

Exit Strategy
Old Guard Billionaire to Leave Sinking Russian Ship

Mikhail Prokhorov, under pressure by the security services, is selling all his businesses. Putin’s regime eats its own.

Hail Shale
America Is the New Oil #1, Thanks to Fracking

America has more recoverable oil than any other country in the world, according to new estimates.

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Brexit
A Tale of Two Cities

Britain has decided that London won’t be Brussels. Other responses to the failure of Western elites may not be so mannerly.

Smart Diplomacy
Bibi Goes to Africa

Africa is an under-appreciated new frontier for Israeli diplomacy.

Orban vs the EU
Hungary to Hold Referendum on Migrants in Fall

October vote could trigger next intra-EU crisis.

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