The Guild-ed Age
Will California Lead the Way on Licensing?

One of the more insidious ways that insiders have rigged the economy against less-skilled workers over the past generation is by imposing licensing requirements for working class jobs.

Japan & Russia
Abe Ignores Obama’s Request to Postpone Russia Trip

The President enters lame duck territory early indeed.

Peace in Our Time
The Kurds, the Kremlin, and the Ceasefire

The British FM is worried about increasing coordination between the YPG and Moscow. He’s right to be.

crime in America
Backlash

When we argue about policing and prison reform today, we are arguing about the legacy of the Great American Crime Wave and the politics it produced.

Foreign Policy Adrift
Beijing Hurries to Cash in on Perceived U.S. Weakness

Beijing plans for 2016 to be a big year for strengthening its military position.

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How the West Misjudged Russia Part 6
The Western Pragmatists Explain Russia

By the end of 2014 the pragmatists recognized that their narratives needed revising, but they still couldn’t recognize the sources of Russia’s deep domestic decay.

speech wars
Will Twitter Narrow the Overton Window?

Some of the right-wing Internet is up in arms over Twitter’s decision to suspend the account of a prominent anti-feminist.

Crude Economics
IEA Predicts a Bad Two Years for Shale, Prices Rebound

Oil prices jumped today after a new IEA report came out that predicts U.S. oil production could fall this year and next.

A Chain of Human Misery
What Chaos Looks Like

A set of uncoordinated policies are starting to create backups up and down the Balkan migrant corridor.

Fear the Airpocalypse
Beijing Makes It Harder to Trigger Smog “Red Alert”

China’s capital is tightening the standards for triggering its most serious air quality warning.

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