A Hollow Treaty
The EU Can’t Keep Its Climate Promises

According to leaked texts, the EU doesn’t plan to update its climate goals as agreed in Paris, nor is it capable of the carbon reductions it promised.

China and the US
A Tale of Two Civilizations

Can China and the United States develop a world order that both will value and defend?

Stunted Science
How Scientists Are Exaggerating the Threat of Ocean Acidification

Scientific journals are “biased” towards publishing doom-and-gloom climate studies, according to a new review.

Education Reform
Why Is Productivity Growth Slowing?

A J.P. Morgan study dramatically illustrates the failure of American educational institutions.

Game of Thrones
Australia Closes in on Sub Deal with Japan

The deal seems more consistent with Australia’s China policy than it did last fall.

Brexit and Beyond
Next Up in the EU: Czexit?

View from Brussels: a never-ending flow of referenda held in return for concessions…

Corruption and Incompetence
Malaysia’s Money Mystery

Funds like Malaysia’s 1MDB should be subject to very strict and non-political scrutiny.

Elections 2016
What’s Really Going on in Iran

“Reformer” and “moderate” are less clear-cut categories than you think—and then there’s the IRGC.

Crude Economics
Cheap Crude Could Push Venezuela’s State-Owned Oil Firm into Default

The bearish oil market is threatening to push Venezuelan oil firm PDVSA over the edge, which could end up easing the global oversupply.

Lawyer Glut
Another Law School Downsizes

Valparaiso Law announces major faculty buyouts as enrollment wanes. Can top law schools weather the storm?

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