While everyone has tried to downplay or avoid the ethnic dimension, things have continued to get worse.

Europe’s migration crisis is not over. It is spreading.

What I saw—and didn’t see—at the PEGIDA rally.

The brazen murder and its subsequent investigation demonstrate the nature and fragility of the Russian political regime.

Beijing understands that North Korea makes life difficult for China.

Reducing sentences for nonviolent offenses won’t take a big bite out of America’s prison population.

The state of Philadelphia’s pension system is dire and Ron Dubow, the city’s Director of Finance, is sounding the alarm.

The first shipment of liquified American shale gas departed a Louisiana port on Wednesday, an historic occasion in U.S. energy history.

For readers of the Chinese edition of Political Order and Political Decay, I thought you might like to know what parts were altered from the original text. The passages below are the English language originals, followed by the Chinese versions.  If you don’t read Chinese, there is an English-only version after the Chinese text.  Hence the […]

Austria, Balkans agree to restrict migrant flow out of Greece. Real problems ahead for Athens, EU.