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Europe’s ‘proud empire’ is entering a cul de sac of history By Andrew Roberts Nothing is inevitable. It was the first truth I was taug...

Greek debt nightmare laid bare By Peter Spiegel A “strictly confidential” report on Greece’s debt projections prepared  for eurozone fina...

Overpopulation By David Osterfeld “What most frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint) is our teeming population. Our number...

Thoughts from the  Front-line By John Mauldin We are coming to the point in the United States when even the US government will no long...

What went wrong? By Bjørn Lomborg One of the world’s biggest green-energy public-policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Ger...

Where law ends, tyranny begins “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. “        ...

The Way Greeks Live Now Petros Vafiadis, with his wife, Ekaterina, and their son Traianos, is an unemployed construction supervisor who s...

Return of the Company Town By John Rubino The US government's obliteration of the Bill of Rights via the Patriot Act, the recent d...

Remember Libya? If you thought the war ended last year, you're dead wrong. By ADAM GARFINKLE L ast week, the  New York Times  ca...

America 2.0 By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD W riting about the onset of the Great Depression, John Kenneth Galbraith famously said that the end...

Mussolini, Mugabe, Ceausescu, Blunt—none of them ever got it up again after losing their knighthood by Taki Theodoracopulos At ten min...

Eugenics William Beveridge, who argued that those with 'general defects' should be denied not only the vote, but 'civil fr...

The after-’80s generation  By MICHELLE DAMMON LOYALKA WHEN China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, visited the White House on Tuesday, Pr...

Schäuble's realistic pessimism Plans for Greece to default, potentially leaving the euro, have been drafted in Germany as the Europ...

Brokest Nation In History Fusses Instead About Sex By MARK STEYN Have you seen the official White House version of what the New York ...

This is the debt chart Obama and Geithner should be ashamed of By James Pethokoukis Testifying before the House Budget Committee toda...

A New “New Halftime” Commercial By Jeff Harding  Those of you who remember the  hilarious cartoon  that described quantitative easing, ...

Rent seeking in bio-fuels still going strong By Bjørn Lomborg Spectators at February’s Daytona 500 in Florida were handed green fla...

Over-regulated America The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulation By The Economist ...

Greece and the euro By G.I. The Free Exchange column in this week's print edition is a  guest article  by Mario Blejer and Guillerm...