Japan's innovation
Japan: The Once and Future Tech Superpower?

Can Japan regain some of the tech élan that once made its growth so robust many Americans feared it would overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy?

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How Russia Misjudged the West Part 12
What Minsk Means

Russia and the West offer a hybrid solution to hybrid war.

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Mending Defense
Pentagon Reform: Hope Springs Eternal

Yet today, the prospects for success are better than ever.

The Syrian Civil War
Assad Regime, Russia to Attack Aleppo

Widely reported assault would signal end of truce.

garden state blues
Super-rich Flee New Jersey

The answer to struggling states’ woes isn’t to hike taxes, kill jobs and drive taxpayers away, and it isn’t to slash services to the bone, either.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Australia and Japan Strengthen Military Ties

Meanwhile, Chinese investment in Australia has soared over the past few months, a reminder of Beijing’s economic power down under.

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Blue Model Crisis
A Drought of Ideas

The problems of a small state college point to the weakness at the heart of liberal society—a weakness that undermines the strength of our republic at home and endangers world peace. And neither political party has the answers.

Seeing Potential
This Week in Promising Green Dreams

What Scottish tidal power, waste-to-energy plants, and carbon farming have in common.

Higher Ed Shake Up
Beyond the BA

Michael Petrilli makes a strong case for beefing up vocational education programs.

Democracy in South Africa
Court to Zuma: Enough Already

Perennial scandal-maker (and political survivor) Jacob Zuma is on the hot seat once again, this time over his palatial taxpayer-funded estate.

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