Trouble in Central Asia
13,000 Beards Shaved in Tajikistan to Fight Radicalism

Forced shavings just one of the measures police are resorting to.

Tango Nuevo
Argentina to Pay Back “Vulture” Creditors

Macri takes painful, necessary step to right Buenos Aires’ finances.

The European Immigration Crisis
Nothing So Permanent As Temporary Measures

Germany may close borders for up to two years.

France à la Modi
Hollande Goes to India

India and France each have lots of things the other wants.

Foreign Policy
GOP Ditches Jefferson

A new poll shows the partisan gap on strengthening the military is the widest it has been in fifteen years.

American Power
Report: U.S. Losing Influence in Asia

New report on Asia claims that “[t]he balance of military power in the region is shifting against the United States.”

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How the West Misjudged Russia Part 3
Shades of Pragmatism

Western analysts have failed to understand Russia for many of the same reasons they failed to understand the Soviet Union: a rejection of normative criteria.

PC Campus Culture
A Win for Sanity at Oberlin

Repudiating campus protesters isn’t enough to fix the modern university, but it’s a good start.

Abortion in America
The Abortion Issue Won’t Go Away

The pro-life cause persists—and continues, by some metrics, to gain ground—despite the shift towards “progressive” mores on issues like same-sex marriage

Crude Economics
Petrostates Still in Peril After Oil’s Rebound

Crude prices are up nearly 10 percent in trading today, but OPEC’s members—and to a certain extent the U.S.—are still in trouble.

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