“Hundreds” of motorcycle-riding, gun-toting Boko Haram fighters launched a brazen daytime attack on Maiduguri, one of northern Nigeria’s biggest cities today.

This week, President Obama admitted Americans will have to switch doctors under the ACA, while HHS Secretary Sebelius said premiums would go up in 2015. Nevertheless the ACA is becoming entrenched law.

In justifying his intervention in Crimea with a duty to defend Russians abroad, Putin is fueling the destructive fire of nationalism. It could be Russia’s undoing.

Though he perhaps hasn’t yet made up his mind on how to proceed, Vladimir Putin appears to be lining up options for his next move in Ukraine.

Wall Street’s back-office exodus from New York could spell trouble for Mayor De Blasio’s agenda.

California’s high taxes and onerous regulations are driving more and more film productions out of the state. Not even Hollywood can stand doing business in California.

The first step in the global fight against corruption should be to cut the flow of illicit funds into developed countries—not to fight corruption in the third world, but to contain it there.

Multinationals are now paying a premium to employees willing to be stationed in smoggy Chinese megacities. The bill for China’s rapid, unrestrained growth is already coming due.

The Russian media and Russian politicians claim it is their duty to confront Ukraine’s “fascism.” What does that emotionally charged label really mean? And who has the right to hang it on whom?

A new Brookings institution study attacks defined-benefit public pension programs for systematically paying women less than men. We can fix this problem and make pensions more sustainable for everyone by switching to defined-contribution plans.