If there is one thing that the history of South Carolina may have to teach the rest of the country it is this: that nothing is more exceptional about American history than the way that the African American church has helped make us a nation that is better, happier, and more united than we have any right to expect.

The stock market crash isn’t just a crisis of China’s financial markets. It is a crisis of China’s political system and international strategy.

Keeping President Obama focused on the negotiations while holding the final deal just out of reach isn’t a bad position for the Supreme Leader—especially when, so far, every step of the process has weakened America’s position and bolstered Iran’s.

The financial crisis in China took an ominous turn for the worse yesterday as investors dumped shares despite government-led measures to stabilize prices. If this continues, it could be the biggest story of the year; maybe of the decade.

Greece has failed the euro, and the euro has failed Greece. An exit from the euro shouldn’t mean exit from the EU, but It’s time to untangle this mess.

As Americans guzzled and gulped their way through the 238th annual celebration of the Declaration of Independence, China’s financial markets writhed in what some analysts warned could be the Big One— the long expected bust that would end the world’s longest economic boom.

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.

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

Analysts are fretting, but the Greeks leaving the euro could be a blessing in disguise.

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