Bad Journalism/Bad Advocacy
NYT Spins Racial Discord with Bad Evidence

The Times tried hard to find racial discord in a story about New Orleans ten years after Katrina. The problem is the facts just aren’t cooperating.

Tragedy Averted
Thwarted Attack Shows Europe Must Rethink Intel Sharing

The narrowly-averted tragedy on the Amsterdam-Paris train on Friday is prompting some European leaders to rethink open borders. They should start by rethinking intelligence-sharing.

India-Pakistan
No Peace in Our Time?

Yet another peace initiative between India and Pakistan is fizzling out. At this point, few should be surprised.

The Higher Ed Bubble
Millions Late on Student Loan Repayments

Students just aren’t earning enough money as a result of their degrees to pay for the cost of getting them. Our higher ed mess is strikingly similar to our health care mess.

Parsing The Kingdom
Insights From a Saudi General

The WSJ sat down with a former Saudi General to talk regional strategy. It can be hard to read the tea leaves in a conversation like this, but the outlines of how the Saudis might be looking at the region after the Iran deal are emerging.

National Accounting
Costs and Benefits Amid Rapid Technological Change

There is a serious case for thinking much harder about how to measure living standards, real incomes, and inequality in a world of rapid technological change.

Renminbi Rumbling
How Low Can It Go?

Sources are telling reporters that Beijing may intentionally want to devalue by as much 10 percent.

Wear and Tear
Quality Up, Price Down

Our tools for measuring economic progress are increasingly not up to the task.

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Snow White and the Seventeen Dwarfs

Some offhand observations on the increasingly surreal state of American politics.

Middle East Mess
U.S. Warming to Russian/Iranian Proposals on Syria?

Wilsonians in the White House get sidelined, as the Obama Administration gets determined to limit America’s exposure in the Middle East.

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