Reforming Delivery
Getting Precise About Medicine

President Obama’s plan to invest in precision medicine has garnered bipartisan support. But it’s as important to invest in new delivery models as in new kinds of treatment.

Elections in the Anglosphere
Groundhog Day in Australia?

The Anglosphere may be turning left just as the U.S. veers right.

Blue Model Blues
RIP, “Emerging Democratic Majority”

The progressive theorist who wrote the book on the “emerging Democratic majority” now believes the country could be seeing an “emerging Republican advantage.” But GOP triumphalists shouldn’t be too quick to rejoice.

Greeks Bearing Debts
The Fate of the Greeks May Hang on the Banks

A developing run on the Greek banks may speed up the Eurozone crisis.

Age of Abe
Japan’s Anti-Terrorism Puzzle

In the wake of the ISIS beheadings of its citizens, Japan has a tough choice to make: double down on its post-war pacifism, or strengthen its role in world affairs.

Mr. Popularity
The Truth in Putin’s Polls

However manufactured, Putin’s high approval ratings do tell us something important: he’s well positioned to stick around for quite some time.

Blue Meltdown
Detroit Seizes Homes to Fund Corruption

Detroit is foreclosing on homes whose owners failed to pay property taxes. This is the ugly state of the Great Society in many cities today: corruption and dysfunction funded by injustice.

Middle East Aflame
The Price of America’s Abdication

As Sunnis and Shiites massacred each other in two prominent American-allied nations, the cost of our lack of leadership grows.

Achilles' Heel
Money Walks, Politicians Talk

The Greeks have put Syriza in Athens, but they’re also putting their money in German banks.

2015 Watch
Power Rankings: The Critical States

Here’s the third tier of our global power rankings: those states most likely to have a destabilizing effect on world order in 2015.

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