The Nuclear Negotiations
Ex-Admin Officials Disown Iran Deal

This is not what the cusp of success usually looks like.

ACA Fail Fractal
The Grey Lady’s Brave Attempt to Defend Obamacare

Subsidies have given some people better access to the U.S. health care, but the long-term unsustainability of our health care system threatens even that.

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Russian Provocations
Time for Sweden to Join NATO

Russia’s provocations in the Baltic Sea region are changing the debate on NATO membership in Sweden.

Enviro-Mental
GMOs Have a PR Problem

Science seems to show that GMOs are safe, so why is there still so much entrenched opposition to them?

The Sunni Bomb
Clinton SecDef Catches Up to TAI

The D.C. establishment is waking up to the dangers of Sunni counter-proliferation.

Health and Wellness
Nanny Employers Are Here

‘Voluntary’ wellness programs are on the rise. But how voluntary are they when they’re coming from your employer?

Caucasus Report
Protests in Yerevan Have the Kremlin Spooked

Is a new “color revolution” in the offing in Armenia? Maybe, or maybe not. But people close to the Kremlin sure are hyperventilating over the possibility.

Crude Economics
What Sanctions Have Done to Iranian Oil

Tehran’s oil exports have nearly halved since 2011, wilting under the pressure of Western sanctions.

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Penny Wise & Pound Foolish
Scrooged: Can NATO Be Fixed?

Russia annexes Crimea, invades Ukraine, menaces the Baltics. NATO responds with…defense spending cuts?

The First Amendment
Religion in a Plain Brown Envelope

American progressives want religion to be a pursuit that people engage in privately—rather like pornography.

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