US Oil Goes Global
First US Crude Exports in 40 Years Cross the Atlantic

Two tankers loaded with U.S. crude are well on their way to European ports following the end of a ban on oil exports.

Money & Corruption in Modern Europe
Was Podemos Funded by Iran?

Iran is alleged to have paid “inflated sums” to party-connected tied media companies.

Religion & Other Curiosities
The Long Road to Harvard

Evangelicals have come of age.

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How the West Misjudged Russia Part 1
What Do the Normativists Stand For?

How do Russia and the West see one another? What are the experts’ views on the confrontation between Russia and the West? How do the pundits explain the Russo-Ukrainian war and Russia’s Syrian gambit? What are the roots of the mythology about Russia in the West, and why has the West failed to predict and understand Russia’s trajectory? These questions and more will be discussed in this essay and in the series to follow.

Crude Economics
Solar Stocks Plunge Alongside Oil Prices

Solar stocks are sliding right alongside global oil prices. Cheap crude makes it harder for renewables to thrive.

The Great Inequality Debate
How Much Class Resentment Is There in America?

Recent research suggests that Americans want more upward mobility for the poor, but they don’t want it to come at the expense of the upper middle class.

WRM Elsewhere
The President’s Foreign Policy Legacy

As public opinion shifts, the Jeffersonianism of President Obama and Sen. Rand Paul is hard hit.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Japan Tells China to Back Off

American policymakers will be watching how this plays out closely.

The Fracas in Caracas
After Election, Venezuela Paralyzed

Socialists withdraw, deny opposition a quorum.

Campus Kangaroo Courts
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Reactionary?

Sen. Bernie Sanders said courts, not campuses, should handle accusations of sexual assault among college students.

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