China in the World
China Trying to Keep Its Venezuelan Pound of Flesh

China is getting an ugly reputation both for extending loans to bad actors and then trying to claw them back from the people the dictators robbed and oppressed.

Propped Up
Denmark Rethinking Wind Subsidies

The runaway costs of propping up wind energy might be too much even for Denmark.

Higher Ed Shake Up
College Accreditation Isn’t Working

Here’s how to fix it.

Game Over
A Reckoning for Russia’s State-Backed Doping Scheme

As a result of an ongoing doping scandal, a ban against Russian track and field athletes participating in international sporting events has been extended through Rio.

Blue Model Goes Belly-Up
Connecticut Sings the Blues

Governor Malloy was the great progressive hope. Now, even his own base has abandoned him.

Enviro-Mental
Are Greens Coming Around to Nuclear Power?

At long last, eco-activist groups are starting to see the green promise of nuclear energy.

China and the US
U.S.–China Economic Relations Continue to Sour

Public criticism from the U.S. Treasury Secretary points to an ominous trend.

Campus Kangaroo Courts
FIRE Takes Government to Court Over Sexual Misconduct Guidelines

It’s regrettable that it had to come to this.

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Shakespeare and Politics
Shakespeare’s Civic Art and the Politics of Poetry

People tend to confine Shakespeare’s political thinking to the plays, with the sonnets being a sort of autobiographical love triangle. Not so. The sonnets are at the heart of his civic-minded poetic project.

Naval Strategy
China Crashes America’s Party

The Malabar exercise has been complicated by the presence of an uninvited Chinese spy ship.

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