Hail Shale
America’s Smallest Oil Producers Aren’t Backing Down

U.S. stripper well operators aren’t backing down from a fight with OPEC.

South China Sea
China Lands Plane on Reclaimed Reef

Contested Chinese moves in the South China Sea were a big story in 2015 and 2016 looks likely to bring more of the same.

China's Bubble
Following China’s Lead, Markets Slide to Begin 2016

Shenzhen suffered its biggest loss in nine years.

The Future of the EU
A Deal Worth Considering

Poland offers to swap a migrant concession for “allied military presence” in its territory.

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The New Year
Gray Lady Weeps as 2016 Off to Ugly Start

2016 is already beginning to look like another year of Grim Slide, of a world stumbling down a slippery slope to become less secure, less stable, and less free.

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Yule Blog
The Mother of All Meaning

To get any insight at all into what Jesus’ childhood and upbringing were like, you have to do something that sometimes makes Protestants uncomfortable: study Mary.

The Sunni-Shi'a War
Iranians Storm Saudi Embassy in Tehran

The attacks are a response to Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shi’a cleric.

Brazil In Trouble
Brazilian Deficit Balloons

A spurt of populist economic measures in the present circumstances could inflict heavier economic damage than expected.

India-Pakistan
Indo-Pak Peace Hopes First Casualty of 2016

An attack on an Indian air force base was aimed at scotching any prospect that Indo-Pakistani relations would actually improve.

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God’s Dilemma

The flawed human race, trapped in a cycle of cascading pain and wrong is what, and who, God is bound and determined to love; the question is how can He do it?

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