The West is debating whether to sanction Russia over Ukraine, but a secret British memo accidentally revealed to the press shows us that the financial industry will likely resist anything that cuts into their business interests.

Washington is giving itself a serious headache trying to figure out how to implement the vaunted pivot to Asia.

Mexico’s state-run oil company is beefing up its investment in oil and gas exploration and production. There’s still a long way to go, but this is an important step toward reversing the steep fall-off in production it has overseen over the past decade.

America has a glut of underemployed PhDs and a lot of students who are struggling to find the time and money to go to college. Sounds like a match made in heaven.

Democrats and the MSM love to quote Warren Buffett’s predictions when they back up lefty causes. Now that Buffett is warning of the coming public pension disaster, their enthusiasm for the Oracle of Omaha is drying up.

Americans still trust Democrats more than Republicans on health care. This shows us that, however much they hate Obamacare, they hate the status quo ante even more.

Let us hope that Pope Francis is helping to formulate an open-minded, non-ideological approach to the institutions best suited to combat poverty under a decent regime of human rights.

More than 150 Nigerians died to Islamist militants and government forces last week. The campaign against Boko Haram is growing more violent daily, and there is a real danger that it will spread beyond northern Nigeria.

The Russians have gone far in consolidating their hold on Crimea today, as is apparent in our updated map. Checkpoints were reported established at Armyansk and Chonhar, the two main border crossings in to Crimea. And the ferry terminal at Kerch, which is only a few kilometers away from the Russian mainland and an ideal crossing point for reinforcements, was seized by Russian troops.

As turmoil sweeps across Eurasia, don’t forget Egypt. Its politics are in turmoil, its economy is sickly, and no one seems to want to accept responsibility for fixing these problems.