The EU and the U.S.
The Missing Ingredient

People pay the most attention to errors of commission, where things (as in Libya) go spectacularly awry. But over time the errors of omission, like in Greece, usually cost you more.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Japan Woos the Mekong Five

This weekend’s summit in Tokyo could see big announcements of trade expansion into China’s back yard.

Africa's God Wars
Boko Haram to Buhari: Come And Get Us

A brutal series of massacres by Boko Haram has left more than 150 dead in northeastern Nigeria this week.

Awards
Danes Slashing Immigrant Benefits

A former ”Racist of the Year” is now serving as speaker of Denmark’s parliament. This is what happens when you don’t enact sensible immigration policy.

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The Green Pope
The Fisherman’s Other Shoe Has Dropped

Francis’ prescriptions on the environment are fanciful at best, and represent the latest Vatican lurch to the Left.

Cuban Embassy Opening
A Good Thing but Not a Big Thing

This morning President Obama is expected to announce the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and his supporters will no doubt hail this as a great success. It’s certainly a good thing, but it’s not a big thing.

Terrible Timing
Regulations Strangling Small Business Growth

At just the moment when our economy desperately needs a wave of innovation and small-scale entrepreneurialism, the Left has decided to do everything in its power to make the American system as inflexible and corporatist as possible.

Barbarism
The Wilsonians’ Folly

The horrors in South Sudan should remind us that the best efforts of human rights activists all too often yield deplorable outcomes.

Middle East Aflame
Turkey Threatens To Invade Syria

Turkey could wind up attacking targets inside Syria—not primarily to counteract ISIS, but to prevent the emergence of a Kurdish state.

Abe on the High Wire
Japan Wary of Constitutional Change

Abe’s push to change the pacifist constitution isn’t winning over the public. That could change if China acts up in the seas this summer—so Beijing might keep quiet to keep Japan out of the game.

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