Russia and the (Scoop) Jackson Democrats
The rush of internationalist Republicans to the Clinton campaign is one of the most striking developments of this unusual year. Anti-Semitic Trump trolls, many apparently Putin-bots, are spewing the...
View ArticleThe World Is at War and the Peace Has Been Lost
From the quiet country churches of Normandy through the civil wars of Africa, the killing fields of Syria, Putin’s war against the modern European order and China’s lawless surge into the waters beyond...
View ArticleThe Soul-Sick Leadership Elite in America
The New York Times digs into the DNC email dump: Last October, a leading Democratic donor named Shefali Razdan Duggal emailed a sweetly worded but insistent list of demands to a staff member at the...
View ArticleF-35 Declared Ready for Battle
After a long period of bad news, the F35 seems to have turned a corner. DefenseNews notes an important milestone: The US Air Force on Tuesday declared its first squadron of F-35As ready for battle, 15...
View ArticleIs Tech Going to Save America’s Bacon Yet Again?
The Wall Street Journal has an exciting piece up on the advances being seen in the burgeoning telemedicine sector. A taste: Driven by faster internet connections, ubiquitous smartphones and changing...
View ArticleBlaming Singapore Will Not Solve Malaysia’s Problems
You can tell that the 1MDB scandal is rocking Malaysian politics when the godfather of the Malaysian political establishment, the grand old man himself, takes notice. And his approach is revealing:...
View ArticleNorks Fire Missile Within 200nm of Japanese Coast
Pyongyang, no stranger to provocation, has taken things to the next level. The Financial Times: “The missile appears to have fallen in our exclusive economic zone. It’s an intolerable, reckless action...
View ArticleActuarial Establishment Tries to Suppress Explosive Paper on Public Pensions
America’s slow-motion public pension train-wreck (by some estimates, the shortfall currently exceeds $3 trillion) has been kept in motion for years by deeply dishonest accounting practices employed by...
View ArticleObama’s Syria Play a Failure
Not only has Russia avoided a quagmire in Syria, its successes on the battlefield against CIA-backed rebels have given it new leverage in the Middle East. The New York Times: “Russia has won the proxy...
View ArticleFear of Violence in Zambia Ahead of Elections
Zambia is on edge ahead of its elections, slated for tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal: Supporters of the rival candidates in what has long been one of Africa’s most stable democracies have repeatedly...
View ArticleThe Greatest Failure of Democratic Social Policy
A new study has found that it would take two hundred and twenty-eight years for black families to accumulate the same amount of wealth that white families have now, if current policy prescriptions...
View ArticleGreece: Still Festering
As new problems accumulate, Europe’s dysfunctional institutions have failed to deal with the old ones. Greece, where the euro crisis was born, is still sinking after years of reform and hundreds of...
View ArticleThe Mexican Labor Market Tightens
Wages are rising in Mexico. This is good news for everyone. The Wall Street Journal reports: The competition for employees—both finding and retaining them—is nudging up labor costs. Retention and...
View ArticleThe Folly of Faith-Based Foreign Policy
Something is stirring in Iran. AP: Iranian security forces on Tuesday killed three Sunni militants in a firefight in the country’s west, the police said.According to the report, posted on the official...
View ArticleThree Choices for Puerto Rico
To longtime nationalists, moves by the United States over the island’s $72 billion debt are yet more proof that colonialism is alive and well. The New York Times: In June, the governor of Puerto Rico,...
View ArticleManafort, Villain-Maker
Paul Manafort resignation today makes it official: Russia is a bad guy again.How do we know? Because while many people in the Acela Corridor do shady things for shady people in foreign lands, doing...
View ArticleThe War on Charters Escalates
A rift is opening up in the African American community over charter schools, the New York Times reports: In separate conventions over the past month, the N.A.A.C.P. and the Movement for Black Lives, a...
View ArticleCentral Bankers Break a Sweat
The world’s central bankers, meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming later this week for their annual gathering, are nervous about how they might react to another financial downturn amid historically low...
View ArticleAnkara and Tehran vs. the Kurds?
Could Turkey and Iran be coming to some kind of rapprochement in Syria? It’s far from a sure thing given the stakes both countries have in the conflict, but the overall positive tone to relations, a...
View ArticleGetting to the “Party of the Future”
Apparently, under the California constitution, the right of a bad teacher to lifetime employment is more important than the right of a poor child to an education. The WSJ has the story: Teacher unions...
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