Higher Education Watch
The Regulatory Goose Chase Degrading America

American colleges are diverting more and more money away from serving students and instead using it to develop a massive D.C. lobbying force.

Indian Elections
Another Setback for Modi

In the campaign, Modi and his BJP party employed tactics aimed at exploiting caste and religious divisions. But that strategy doesn’t appear to be working.

America's Next Foreign Policy
Pivot to the World

Poor management of America’s foreign policy portfolio now means that President Obama—and his successor—will have to increase America’s overseas commitments and responsibilities.

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China's Climate Conundrums
How to Make a Mountain of Coal Disappear

China’s pollution books are either messy or cooked. Either option emphasizes the Potemkin nature of a supposedly binding global climate accord.

Leonard Brooks Pierson
Homo Americanus
A Cowboy Life in Poetry

Who would have thought that real cowboy versifying was still around as late as the 1950s?

schadenfreude
Germans Spied on Allies, NGOs

Germany’s bitter criticism of its allies for spying, particularly the United States, was pure hypocrisy, according to recent reports.

The Future
The Uberization of Finance

From democratizing loans to revolutionizing venture capital to making stock ownership more accessible to more people, a brave new world of finance appears to be emerging.

Too Little Too Late?
UN Rushes Climate Fund Projects Ahead of Paris Summit

The UN just doled out the first $168 million from its Global Climate Fund on eight projects that were pushed through an expedited review process.

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New World Disorder
East Asia 2015 Is Not Europe 1914

Why everyone’s favorite analogy for today’s unsettled times—the year 1914—doesn’t pass the smell test.

The Middle East Peace Process
WH Admits Failure in Peace Process

Obama admits that there will be no peace agreement between Israel and Palestine before he leaves office.

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