Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| MUSLIM SUCCESS STORY Albania's economic and anticorruption successes are models for other Muslim nations, says Steve Forbes... |
| U.N. SPENDING REQUESTS EXPAND During President Bush's tenure, the United States has signed off on billions of dollars for U.N. peacekeeping operations, say observers... |
| WELFARE WEAN The combination of high taxes and a regulated labor market keeps out immigrants from Sweden's labor market, says Nima Sanandaji... |
| HOW PUTIN'S CRACKDOWN HOLDS RUSSIA BACK Whatever gains Russia has experienced under president Vladimir Putin, they would have been greater under a democratic regime, say Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss... |
| MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER "Love marriages" -- which are on the rise in urban India -- may spur economic growth in that country, says Divya Mathur... |
| TRAGEDY OF AFRICA Despite the dire situation in Africa, the worst thing the West can do is give more foreign aid, says Walter E. Williams... |
| VOTING WITH THEIR OARS Out of 11 million inhabitants, 2 million Cubans now live in exile, scattering many families across Miami, Spain and Puerto Rico, say authors... |
| DOGGED DEVOTION: BRITONS DIG DEEP FOR PETS' HEALTH About a quarter of Britain's 16 million or so dogs and cats are insured, compared with less than 2 percent in the United States... |
| COMING UP TRUMPS The UN's little-known terrorist watchlist is alarmingly arbitrary, say observers... |
| NO FREEDOM WITHOUT ECONOMIC FREEDOM The United States is the fifth-most economically free nation in the world, according to the Index of Economic Freedom... |
