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National Priorities, International Rivalries, and Global Cooperation

May 10, 2012

China's Bully Tactics

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Image credit: Remko Tanis
Why so much authoritarian wrath for a dissident “nerd who stutters”?
May 4, 2012

Policing Terrorism

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Image credit: Barbara Kelley
Why are the principles of federalism absent from national security policy?
May 3, 2012

More Rubble, Less Trouble

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Have drones killed the traditional American way of war, defined by annihilation and attrition?
April 6, 2012

Herbert Hoover's Road Not Taken

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Completed forty-eight years ago, his magnum opus appears at last. George H. Nash discusses its insights into our thirty-first president. By Charity Nebbe.

April 6, 2012

Europe's Only Choice

No longer able to devalue its way to competitiveness, Europe can save itself in just one way: reforming its welfare states. By Michael J. Boskin.

April 6, 2012

The Arab Spring: What We Know Now

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One year later, much of the conventional wisdom about the uprisings has been proven wrong. By Fouad Ajami.

April 6, 2012

Let the Market Work

When a government enacts stimulus programs and manipulates asset prices, it can only buy time. By Kevin M. Warsh.

April 6, 2012

Tradegy of the Commons, in Two Acts

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A classic parable of shared resources explains the woes besetting both the euro and U.S. debt. By Gary D. Libecap.

April 6, 2012

Living with the U.N.

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The world body cannot escape from its own persistent and severe limitations, but perhaps the United States can. By Kenneth Anderson.

April 6, 2012

Scrap the Euro Now

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The common currency was doomed from the start. By Robert J. Barro.