President Obama’s announcement today that local police forces in the United States will no longer be able to access certain kinds of military surplus equipment is the best news we’ve heard from the White House in a long time.
Kansas still has long term fiscal problems, but Brownback’s tax cuts have brought wage and job growth to the state. One gap: a serious focus on making government itself more efficient.
The success of the Syria raid and the collapse in Ramadi paradoxically point to the same grim fact: America’s chosen policies in the Middle East are failing.
Today’s plight of the Rohingya, the Syrians and the Libyans point toward the kind of change and turmoil that is bound to accompany any serious decline of American power and will.
In the latest example of Modi’s increasing struggle to enact his economic reform agenda, political opposition crushed an important, otherwise popular tax reform bill.
A new Pew report that found a steep decline in Christian affiliation made waves, but one big reason to treat it carefully: the ‘nones’ aren’t quite who you think they are.
Authorities in Xinjiang and Beijing are worried about the spread Islamist violence in Xinjiang, and they are taking away the passports of Uighurs, a Sunni minority in the western province of Xinjiang.
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