The Anti-American Visa
H-1B Visas Pave Way for Outsourcing

Layoffs coupled with outsourcing at Toys-R-Us and New York Life tied to popular visa.

Otello at the Met
A Green-Eyed Monster Hit

The new production of Otello at the Met is startling, interesting, and beautiful. Run, don’t walk.

The Pope and the Information Age
Google, Apple, Facebook…and the Vatican

How the Risorgimento, completed 145 years ago this week, left the Vatican two centuries ahead of the times.

An Italian immigrant family on board a ferry from the docks to Ellis Island, New York. (Photo by Lewis W Hine/Getty Images)
Europe's Great Wave
Europe Should Look to the Ellis Island Model

The historical “best practice” for accepting large numbers of immigrants, Ellis Island also illustrates the scale of the challenge facing Europe.

The European Immigration Crisis
Cascading Border Closures Rock Europe

Is this the end of Schengen?

Top. Men.
U.S. Syria Force Down to “Four or Five” Fighters

With a $500m program behind them, these must be very dangerous men.

Fool's Paradise
Anti-Americanism Returns to UK Mainstream

The new leader of the Opposition wants to withdraw from NATO, ditch nukes.

Europe's Great Wave
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Is Also a Migrant Crisis

It’s not an either/or.

the migrant crisis
The Drowned Boy on the Beach: Europe’s Failures and Europe’s Challenges

Five major policy challenges stand between the urge to “do something” about the migrant crisis and actually solving the problems driving it.

Opera's Farm Leagues
How Music Gets Made

The Castleton Festival has some of the nation’s top cultural, intellectual, and political leaders behind it. Whether it succeeded or failed would be an important indicator of the health of the arts in the 21st century.

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