Bruce Springsteen is no mere musical entertainer, argues a new biography. The Boss is a multidimensional American cultural phenomenon—broken-soul mender, community-builder, proletarian troubadour, political preacher and marketing juggernaut all in one.

A concerted effort to match the U.S. economy with complementary economies abroad can be a powerful engine of job creation. Bolstering the American-Israeli connection is a great place to start.

A December 2012 appellate court decision to allow off-label drug marketing withstands scrutiny, but you must know the case’s complex backstory to understand why.

The Responsibility to Protect concept is not flawed because it’s hard to implement; it’s hard to implement because it’s a paragon of moral illogic.

A few days ago rebels were defeated and thrown out of a strategically vital town near the Lebanese border. Brigades of Hezbollah fighters reinforced troops from the Assad regime in that fight. They are now massed outside Aleppo; an invasion appears close at hand. Not too long ago pundits were predicting the imminent demise of […]

Iran’s presidential election is only three days away, and the nuclear program remains foremost in the minds of outside observers and in the statements of the seven remaining candidates. But as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to step down, it’s worth taking a closer look at Iran’s deteriorating economy. The FT‘s reporter spoke with Masoumeh, a 47-year old woman […]

After a week and a half of violent clashes between protesters and police throughout Turkey, things don’t seem to be cooling off. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced today that the government will not halt its controversial plans to develop a park. This morning riot police and demonstrators clashed again around the contested Taksim Square […]

An aggressive campaign seeks to lure the American workforce back to manufacturing, the WSJ reports: Manufacturers, government officials and nonprofits across the country are looking for ways to get the country’s brightest kids fired up about industry. They’re setting up engineering contests, backing classroom projects where kids design everything from audio speakers to artificial limbs, […]

Ding-dong, the wicked witch of farming subsidies might soon be dead. Last year a comprehensive farm bill reform stalled in the House of Representatives, forcing Congress to extend the 2008 bill for another year. But yesterday the Senate passed a new farm bill, and it looks like the House version has a fighting chance of […]

Nearly a third of the world’s technically recoverable natural gas and 10 percent of its oil can be found in shale formations, according to a new report by the Energy Information Administration.  Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling, there’s a bounty of oil and gas available to countries around the world .This report, which has a […]