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America's Crony Capitalism
Karl Marx to the Rescue?

Frustrated and emasculated, many Americans blame “capitalism” for their woes, but what they really hate is America’s neo-feudalism, in its modern-day, crony capitalist form.

Dirty Money
How Chinese Corruption Corrupts the World

When we find evidence that dirty money from China has been used in a corruption scheme aimed at subverting institutions outside of China, the hammer needs to come down, hard.

$15 Minimum
Wal-Mart Woes: Perils of the Minimum Wage Hike?

If advocates of a $15 national minimum wage were motivated by evidence rather than ideology, then Wal-Mart’s recent stock slide would give them pause.

China and Magna Carta
Liberty’s Great Charter

China is forbidding a copy of the Magna Carta from being displayed. 800 years on, the document still has power.

Meet Your New Meat
Start the Countdown: Five Years Until Shamburgers?

The Dutch team that brought the world its first lab-grown hamburger aims to put the faux beef on the market by 2020.

A Golden Age for Opera
Watch the Metropolitan Opera—from Your Neighborhood

The Met’s Otello, which we reviewed in September, will be in a cinema near you today.

The Future of Security
Russian Hackers Infiltrate Dow Jones Servers

Russia is at least as much of a cyber threat as China.

After the deal
Administration: Iran Missile Test Violates UN Sanctions

The Iran Deal isn’t making the Administration’s life in the Middle East any easier, which is what a true foreign policy success would have done.

yes means yes
Get Ready for Sex Re-Education

California teachers are having trouble explaining “yes means yes” to high schoolers.

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beyond blue
The Twenty-First Century Retirement Model Is Coming into Focus

The American people are still caught in the transition between two different retirement systems. That needs to change, and it will.

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