Falling BRICS
Unease in Brazil as Recession Bites

Brazil has officially entered a recession, and its people are nervous about the currency. With China’s troubles perhaps just beginning, the future is not looking too bright.

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Blue Model Zombies
Fighting the Future

With last Friday’s NLRB ruling, progressives have taken up William F. Buckley’s stance—”athwart history, yelling ‘Stop!’” It won’t work.

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.

country of the future
Brazil Crisis Deepens as Ex-President Calls for Resignation

A reputable former Brazilian president is calling for President Dilma Rousseff to consider resigning. That Brazil is looking inward and worrying about its own stability is not a good sign.

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.

Europe's Immigration Crisis
Of Nationalists and Cosmopolitans

Today, both in Europe and the U.S., the technocrats and the cosmopolitans have leaned too far ahead over their skis. One of the consequences is the revival of the ugly side of nationalist politics.

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Honest Graft
The First Postmodern Political Machine

How do the Clintons, dogged by scandal and suspicion at every turn, not just stay afloat in American political life, but thrive?

Blue For Who?
The Tony Soprano Enabling Act

There should not be two classes of workers in American states, and private organizations like labor unions should not be able to grant exemptions to public laws.

New World Disorder
The World Is Not Flat

Failed American policies have helped create the global refugee crisis, which sees migrants drowning in the hulls of boats bound for Europe.

The Great Fall of China
China’s Devaluation: Much More Trouble to Come?

China’s devaluation of the yuan are pulling it into the very competition for cheap production that Beijing insists China’s economy has moved beyond.

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