Higher Education Watch
What Kind of Diversity Matters at Yale?

What’s missing from Yale’s new diversity report.

Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Why Are America’s Urban Mass Transit Systems in Crisis?

We don’t spend too little on mass transit. We just spend it in all the wrong places.

Public Opinion
American Support for Israel Getting More Partisan

While overall support for Israel has grown over the past several decades, the distribution of that support has changed.

China and the US
China Will Deploy Submarines with Nukes in the Pacific

There’s a lot to be concerned about in the Pacific these days.

The Mess in the Middle East
As Kurds Advance, Arabs Enlist to Fight for ISIS

Tribalism and other forces make ending the “caliphate” more complicated than it at first appears.

Examining the Energiewende
Looking Under Germany’s Green Hood

Germany has tripled its renewable power production over the past decade. But how green is its energiewende, really?

A Token Reformist
Kudrin, Half-Restored?

Vladimir Putin convened his Council of Economic Advisors for the first time in two years this week, with his former Finance Minister on board. But it was only for a “brainstorming session”, the Kremlin said, suggesting that serious reforms were not about to be unveiled.

Crude Economics
Surging Iran, Fading OPEC

Tehran’s oil output has returned to pre-sanctions levels quicker than most expected, while OPEC continues to slide into irrelevance.

Blue Model Blues
The Tragic Mismanagement of Chicago’s Public Schools

Chicago’s public school system is on the verge of facing financial insolvency, and it’s not because selfish taxpayers have been starving it of revenue.

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Tax Evasion Nation
Will the US Be Branded a Tax Haven?

It will indeed, unless something changes, according to a member of a European Union delegation to the United States investigating shell companies.

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