Europe's Paper Militaries
EU and What Army?

This isn’t going to keep Vladimir Putin up nights.

Exceptionalism by the numbers
America the Outlier

Pew’s findings show that America bucks a number of consistent global trends.

Fill 'Er Up
China and India to Snatch Up Crude in 2015

China and India are ready to go on an oil shopping spree as they fill up strategic reserves.

Blue Civil War
Rahmbo vs. the Blue Lemmings

Not even President Obama matters to some Dem party leaders in Chicago anymore as mayoral race drives wedge between reformers and true believers.

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Know Thy Enemy
The Tyrant’s Hopelessness

The ancients knew: to understand a tyranny, you have to understand the tyrant’s soul.

Power Politics
Brussels Kills Hungary-Russia Nuclear Power Deal

Brussels just killed a deal that would’ve had a Russian nuclear energy firm construct and supply a nuclear power plant in Hungary.

Review
A Flawed But Important Take on Immigration

Immigration Outside the Law By Hiroshi Motomura Oxford University Press, 2014, 360 pp., $29.95Hiroshi Motomura, professor of law at UCLA, has written the most thoughtfully and honestly argued brief for a liberal immigration regime in the United States that one is likely to find.  Exploring the implications of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1982 decision in […]

The Iran Deal
The Way Forward on Iran

The P5+1 left a few key players out of the equation. The President must act to add them in.

India's Pollution Problem
Delhi’s Dubious Air Quality Numbers

Delhi officials plan to “authenticate” pollution data before making it public. Measure twice, censor once?

A billion here a billion there
A Big New Tranche of IMF Cash for Ukraine

The International Monetary Fund is generous, but its assistance won’t go all that far.

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