Biofuel Boondoggle
Behold the RINsanity

Newly released data sheds light on the dysfunctional accreditation system behind America’s biofuel mandates.

Pension Meltdown
Passing the Disappearing Buck

The town of La Grange, IL is a microcosm of countless U.S. towns where, by some spectral mix of cronyism and ignorance, pension benefits have been promised that are quite simply undeliverable.

Pricing Emissions
Brussels Sets Date for Fixing Carbon Market

The EU just approved an important reform to its broken-down carbon market, due to come into play in 2019.

Battle for Ukraine
Kiev Pushing for US Training for Soldiers

U.S. troops are already training Ukraine’s national guard, and now Kiev wants the same treatment for its conventional soldiers and special forces. If Washington accedes, it will be the biggest and most concrete act of support yet.

Gridlock
Germany’s Green Dreams Causing Energy Nightmares Across Europe

Germany’s rapid renewable expansion is putting pressure on its neighbors’ power grids.

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The Black Church
Charleston and the Confederate Flag

If there is one thing that the history of South Carolina may have to teach the rest of the country it is this: that nothing is more exceptional about American history than the way that the African American church has helped make us a nation that is better, happier, and more united than we have any right to expect.

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Reviews
The Garbage Man Who Would Be King

The graffiti of Tsang Tsou-choi, the “The King of Kowloon”, testifies to memory in a time of forgetting and particularity in an age of abstraction.

Building a Better Blighty
UK to Meet NATO Mark for Defense Spending

The budget pledge, which was not in the Conservative manifesto, restores the UK to a leadership position among European NATO allies.

Diplomacy du jour
India Buys Israel Flowers

India is showing its newfound affection for Israel in a number of ways: UN votes and state visits.

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Iran and the Bomb
The Waiting Game

Another “deadline” in the Iranian nuclear negotiations has come and gone. Why the delays? What are the Mullahs thinking? For that matter, what is the President thinking?

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