Reefer Madness
California’s Bread-and-Circuses Weed Initiative

Moderate marijuana guru Mark Kleiman has harsh words for California’s new pot-legalization initiative.

Pacific Problems
“Comfort Women” Deal In Peril?

The Japanese payment of $9.75 million wasn’t enough to convince many Koreans that Tokyo felt real remorse.

2016
Clinton’s Student Loan Plan: Subsidies for Stanford Graduates

The Clinton campaign’s new student loan proposal would give relief to people who need it least.

Enviro-Mental
Scientists Scorn Greenpeace’s Deadly GMO Scare Tactics

A group of 107 Nobel laureates just called out Greenpeace for its Luddite and borderline barbaric opposition to a lifesaving GMO.

Spencer Platt/Newsmakers
Green Dreams
The Rise of Moral Environmentalism

Humanity is once again living in a millenarian moment.

It's the ethnicity stupid...
UN Finally Admits Burundi’s Government Is Killing Tutsis

What is happening in Burundi is not yet a full-scale civil war or ethnic cleansing, but it may well be a prelude to genocide.

Brexit and Beyond
Tory Split Opens over Relations with China

But Britain is likely to need China more than ever after its divorce from the EU common market.

red dawn flickers
Reform Government First, Cut Taxes Later

Enthusiasm for state-level tax cuts is on the wane as legislators look at the fiascos in Kansas and Louisiana.

Wasted Effort
China’s Underperforming Wind Turbines Can Teach Greens a Lesson

China has twice as much wind energy capacity as the U.S., but still produces less actual wind power.

North Korea Fallout
U.S. Brings South Korea and Japan Together for Missile Defense Drills

Beijing’s unwillingness/inability to keep North Korea in line leaves it sidelined.

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