Fanciful Farming
Magical Thinking in Indian Agriculture

An Indian minister advocated sending “good vibrations” to seeds to improve yields. This kind of thinking pervades Western green thought, as well.

Far-Right Rising
Cleaning Up Real Nice

Europe’s far-Right has discovered that the road to electoral respectability involves rejecting anti-Semitism and embracing Israel.

ACA Agonistes
NYT: Obamacare Reducing Competition

One of the major effects of the Affordable Care Act has been to reduce competition in the health insurance sector.

The Great Inequality Debate
Inequality Hasn’t Made Americans Support Redistribution

A new study shows that Americans’ support for economic redistribution has remained constant or decreased, despite rising economic inequality.

Lucrative Leftovers
American Oil Producers Punch Back in Price Fight

U.S. companies are refracking vertical wells in mature fields for a cheap, quick boost in today’s bearish oil market.

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the migrant crisis
Compassion and Interests

A moral vision is important, but it helps greatly if you can appeal to hard interests as well as to conscience.

Limping to Paris
Kiss This Important Climate Goal Goodbye

Back-of-the-envelope math says we will shoot well past the two degrees Celsius of warming scientists have warned against.

la patrie en danger
France to Bomb ISIS in Response to Homeland Threat

Commendable as the French turn against ISIS is, Paris may not have any more strategy to deal with the problems posed by Syria than we do.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Japan and Vietnam Building a Strategic Partnership

Japanese premiere Shinzo Abe promised Hanoi a loan of 100 billion yen ($835 million) for infrastructure development.

Far-Right Rising
Chances of Brexit Rise as Migrant Crisis Roils EU

A new poll puts the support for leaving the EU at 40 percent. The uptick in support for a Brexit comes after a change in the way the poll question was worded, but the reason for the change appears to be the migrant crisis.

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