Green Climate Fund
Do We Know How to Smartly Spend Climate Cash?

Green investments have a dismal track record in generating big eco-returns per dollar spent.

The European Immigration Crisis
German Right-Wing Party to Adopt Anti-Islam Manifesto

Measures would ban minarets, calls to prayer, veils.

After Manufacturing
The End of Economic Development?

Increasingly, more and more people are preparing to get on the development ladder only to find that it no longer exists.

Untapped Potential
Fracking Support Withers in the UK

Support for fracking in the UK is falling while opposition to the drilling practice grows.

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Astropolitics
The Invisible Arms Race

We’ve finally admitted that the space race is on. Time for bold steps to compete.

Latin Lefty Meltdown
Bargain Oil Is Crushing Venezuela

Oil is more than $70 cheaper per barrel than Venezuela needs it to be to balance the national budget.

North Korea Fallout
China Promises to Prevent War on Korean Peninsula

Japan and South Korea have been calling on Beijing to step up the pressure on Pyongyang.

ACA at the ballot box
Pew: Obamacare Support Sags

Democrats still love the law, but Republican and Independent support is plummeting.

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Battle for Ukraine
The Best Ways to Help Ukraine

Scrap the Minsk agreement, hold the line on sanctions on Russia, and keep pressuring Ukraine’s leaders to clean up corruption.

Paging Goldilocks
Brussels Still Can’t Find the Carbon Price Sweet Spot

Europe’s highest court ordered the European Commission back to the drawing board to fix its broken carbon market.

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