Crude Economics
Saudis Promise to Keep the Oil Coming

Riyadh is cutting its budget and promising to keep the crude flowing in 2016. Cheap oil looks like it’s here to stay.

Out of Afghanistan?
Al Qaeda Resurgent in Afghanistan

Officials seemingly don’t know how many training camps Al Qaeda is operating in Afghanistan.

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Yule Blog
Personal Meaning

Theists and atheists are different. While both groups think life means something, they understand that meaning in different ways.

overregulated
A New Year’s Present for California Trial Lawyers

California’s state government is moving, based on dubious feminist statistics, to enact another impossibly broad, costly regulation on the state’s employers.

The Great Blue Migration
Why Are So Many People Leaving New York?

We can think of several reasons people might move out of New York—and Illinois, California, and Massachusetts.

The Syrian Civil War
State Department: “Bringing Peace, Security to Syria” 2015 Accomplishment

Meanwhile, U.S. officials speaking off the record say Putin has accomplished main Syria goals.

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ISIS and the West
Provocations

Why we shouldn’t dismiss the idea of negotiating with ISIS out of hand, and why the “war of ideas” between the West and Islam is a fool’s notion.

Yule Blog
The Meaning of Christmas

Why do Christians and so many other people believe in an invisible Ruler and Creator of the universe—and then how does the Christian idea of God differ from the others?

Chicago Blues
Why the Rahm Story Matters

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s struggles point to the escalating crisis of governability for blue cities across the United States.

Abortion in America
Who Gets Abortions? Not Who You’d Think from Watching TV

The people who get abortions on TV are different from the people who get abortions in real life.

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