Follow the Money
Paris Isn’t Worth a Climate Fund

The developed world hasn’t followed through on a Copenhagen climate fund promise, and that could sink this December’s talks.

Job Openings
Help Wanted for Walter Russell Mead

If you think you have what it takes, or if you know somebody who does, here’s how to apply.

ACA Fail Fractal
Another ACA Argument Bites the Dust

The so-called “health care slowdown” has long been one of the key talking points for Affordable Care Act supporters. But the slowdown has now sped back up.

Asia's Game of Thrones
China’s Live Fire Provocation

Over a hundred Chinese ships took part in the exercises, which saw missiles flying over the hotly disputed waters.

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Revisionists
Putinology

Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy can only be understood in the context of the regime’s evolving domestic weakness. Unfortunately, that does not make it less dangerous.

The Endgame in Syria
More Magical Thinking in Syria

The Administration rules out no fly zone with Turkey and much else—while still wanting the same result.

Peak Blue
Would Economic Populism Turn the White Working Class Democratic?

The party of Truman and Roosevelt cannot be resurrected in the foreseeable future. The economic model that existed in the New Deal era, and that the New Deal political coalition relied upon, is deteriorating.

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Islam and Democracy
Is Turkey the Key?

Despite recent authoritarian backsliding, could Turkey supply the prototype for a successful synthesis of Islam and democracy?

Puerto Rico Blues
Treasury Secretary on Puerto Rico: It’s Chapter Nine Time

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew tells Congress no federal bailout for Puerto Rico is in the offing, but urges it to grant the commonwealth access to federal bankruptcy courts instead.

Respite in India
Hallelujah for the Rains

Millions of Indians rely on the annual monsoon rains, which climatologists predicted would be absent this year due to El Niño. Luckily, they were wrong.

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