Socialism
Tap Runs Dry in Venezuela

Caracas is dealing with a beer shortage. Things could get ugly.

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Thinking Strategically
A Deal Iran’s Hardliners Can Love

It certainly contains some attractive features from an Iranian perspective.

Asia's Game of Thrones
China Bemoans Collusion Between Manila and Tokyo

China’s antagonistic policies are just making life more difficult for Beijing, as threatened neighbors collude.

Blue Model Crisis
The Pension Vise Tightens

It’s been apparent for years that America’s underfunded public employee pension system, one of the backbones of blue model governance, will have to face a brutal reckoning at some time or another, but new data suggest that the date of that reckoning may be sooner than anticipated.

Welcome to the 21st Century
Why Did So Many People Watch the GOP Debate?

A format that favored sharp questions and pithy answers, and emphasized style as well as policy substance, drew in an unprecedentedly large—and young—audience.

Second City
Discrediting the Blue Model One Crisis at a Time

Chicago’s police abuse scandal gets an update. That these abuses occurred in a deep blue city in one of the bluest states in the country shouldn’t surprise us.

Dilma's Dilemma
Mutiny Spells Trouble for Rousseff

At a time when the ship is heading for the rocks, a riot has broken out on the poop deck.

ACA Agonistes
NC Insurer Seeks 34.6 Percent Rate Hike

In June, Blue Cross and Blue Shield asked for an average premium hike of roughly 26 percent (on top of this year’s 13.5 percent increase). Now it is saying that number is too low and it will need a 34.6 increase.

gender wars
The Sexual Revolution’s Unlikely Winners

The paradox that’s helping to drive the sex wars on campus: “liberated” sex often works out better for young men than for young women.

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Obama & the Iran Deal
The Big Sell

A look at the truths, falsehoods, and ambiguous statements proffered by the Obama Administration in selling the Iran deal to the American public.

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