An Unappetizing Menu
How We’re Failing in the Middle East

Though strategic incoherence was hardly absence from the Bush administration’s policies in the same region, it is not easy to recall a moment of similar incoherence, ineptitude and strategic disarray in American foreign policy as we’re seeing today.

Putinism
Potemkin Village Foreign Policy

Russia announced it would participate in joint naval drills with China in 2016 in the South China Sea. The announcement makes for great headlines, but there’s less than meets the eye here.

Black Employment Blues
Black Workers Can No Longer Rely on Blue Jobs

African-American public sector workers are feeling the brunt of the decline of the blue model, but those jobs aren’t coming back.

Enviro-Mental
Can Our Biofuel Boondoggle Be Fixed?

After more than a year of delays the EPA finally released new biofuel quotas, but the policy remains hopelessly broken.

Another Great Migration
Minorities Following Opportunities, Fleeing Blue Cities

A new report suggests that ethnic minorities are fleeing those cities claiming to be most diverse and tolerant, and heading for the Wild West and the former Confederacy.

Putinism
Why The Kremlin Has To Keep Lying

As the Kremlin fights to keep the issue of Russian soldiers dying on the battlefields of Ukraine a secret at home, it’s resorting to increasingly authoritarian methods.

Fracking Goes Global
U.S. Shale Is Transforming the LNG Market

American shale gas is prepared to not only flood the global LNG market, but to fundamentally transform it.

Greeks Bearing Debts
The Enron of the Aegean

No one knows how much Greece owes, or what its assets really are. And nobody (in the negotiations) wants to.

Perturbed About Paris
The Chorus of Climate Discontent Swells

French environment minister Ségolène Royal has just poured cold water over the UN climate process. Is the Paris climate summit doomed before it begins

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Russia and the West
Answer the Baltics’ S.O.S.

Approving the Baltic states’ request for a permanent NATO military presence is the best way to prevent war with Russia and preserve the alliance.

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