Higher Ed Shake Up
College Isn’t Always Worth It

We need to do a better job of meeting the practical needs of the sizable percentage of the population that doesn’t benefit very much from sitting in classrooms year after year.

Foreign Policy 101
Turkish Town Riots Against Syrian Refugees

This is what happens when feckless leaders try to solve the Syrian refugee problem without addressing the Syrian war problem.

Details
Financial Transparency After Panama

Legal crackdowns after the Panama Papers revelations will raise tricky questions.

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Blue Model Crisis
A Drought of Ideas

The problems of a small state college point to the weakness at the heart of liberal society—a weakness that undermines the strength of our republic at home and endangers world peace. And neither political party has the answers.

Strategy & Policy
The Global Vote of No Confidence in Pax Americana

Defense spending is up around the world. It’s a sign that the most successful strategy of modern times is unraveling.

Corruption in Brazil
Discredited Brazilian Left Cries Foul

Those on the left who want to blame some kind of vast right wing conspiracy for the collapse of the PT’s popularity are barking up the wrong tree.

Beware of Greeks Bearing Debts
Wikileaks Produces Unity in Europe—Against the IMF

Leaked discussions of Greek bailouts spark furor from Berlin to Athens.

Kleptocracy Watch
Clean Up the UN

The ‘international space’ is poorly governed, and the press doesn’t watch it as closely as it watches national politics.

Blue Model Blues
Making Work Work in the 21st Century

Both political parties seem more interested in peddling competing brands of nostalgia than in promoting a workable vision for the post-industrial economy.

China's Christians
Christianity With Chinese Characteristics

China needs the talents and the idealism of its growing Christian minority.

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