A Continent in Trouble
Don’t Look Now, but Club Med Is Still in Trouble

Sluggish growth, budget deficits, and austerity rules bring back old fights in Italy and Spain at a terrible time.

crisis in china
Wealthy Chinese Send Their Money Elsewhere

The biggest reason to worry about China is that the government may be losing confidence in both the country’s future and the loyalty of its citizens.

Propped Up
Investors Are (Rightfully) Wary of US Solar Industry

America’s biggest solar companies are taking a beating as worries grow over their reliance on government subsidies.

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Divide & Conquer
Russia Wields the Kurdish Weapon

Vladimir Putin is exploiting yet another incoherence in U.S. Middle East policy. And the MSM is still ignoring the implications of the comprehensive failures of the Obama Administration.

Corruption in Kiev
Ukrainian Government on the Ropes?

We’re beginning to see a pattern, and it isn’t a pretty one for President Poroshenko.

Law & Order
Sometimes Bad News Is Also Good News

Israeli ex-PM goes to jail—because the system works.

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Homo Americanus
A Maine Childhood, Twice Told

A memoir of a girl’s Maine childhood considered by another Maine memoirist, with sixty years—and a class divide—separating the two.

The Supremes After Scalia
The Court Controversy: Not Unprecedented

There have been two instances since the Civil War where a president failed to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. But this debate isn’t really about precedent.

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the long war
Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan

How the President took a bad situation in Afghanistan and made it even worse.

Requiescat in pace
His Friends Called Him Nino

Justice Scalia will be mourned across the aisle, and remembered for his vivid personality as well as intellect.

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