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Laura Kelly writes for The Hill about problems posed by Russia’s latest military actions. Russia’s increasing use of hybrid and gray-zone attacks against European countries is posing a major challenge…
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online considers a recent revelation about the communist Chinese government. To hear the Chinese government tell it, its country ranks 98th in the world in…
“Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016” is a study published in Lancet that examines health and education outcomes. Specifically, the researchers collected, standardized, and…
Earlier this week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released results from the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). PISA assesses math, reading, and science proficiency among…
That’s the title of a recent blog post by Matt Ridley in which he discusses the distressing rise of protectionism. Here’s an excerpt: Last week both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump set out…
Victor Davis Hanson asks in a National Review Online column whether the Western defense establishment set up in the aftermath of World War II is worth preserving. Donald Trump recently…
One of the many problems with this blog is I don’t take the time to delve into the issues, but instead jump to shallow conclusions on the basis of unsound…
The Heritage Foundation has released its 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, and the results aren’t great for the US. We come in 12th, with particularly low scores in government spending…
Critics of the United States have often labeled its policies “imperialistic.” Victor Davis Hanson writes at National Review Online about one way in which those criticisms are correct. We are…
Steve Forbes explains in the latest issue of Forbes magazine why conventional wisdom about Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s propensity for provocative behavior might be wrong. THE IDEA that Vladimir Putin…
The Tax Foundation has a new report out today, and it’s not exactly great news for the US. According to their International Tax Competitiveness Index for 2014, the US ranks…
Michael Barone‘s latest column at Human Events suggests that President Obama continues to cling to some harmful delusions that are contradicted by historical evidence. … [O]ne hopes that, as Obama…