China’s restive Xinjiang province has long been a place of ethnic tension and separatist sentiment. Now, there’s been a vicious terror attack on bystanders in a busy train station in the city of Kunming, and authorities are saying terrorists from Xinjiang are responsible. Kunming is hundreds of miles away from Xinjiang. Is the remote province’s unrest moving eastward?

Europe’s industrial titans are decrying the continent’s green-over-growth energy policies. By choosing to see cheap energy and a healthy environment as mutually exclusive goals, Europe is hamstringing its own economic recovery and doing nothing for the planet.

Bad credit? Can’t find a job? Rent and bills to pay? Why not take out a student loan? Don’t worry, you don’t even have to take any classes.

Liberalism at home thrives when government succeeds abroad.

We and much of the world now get sick in ways that were rare a century ago. There’s a reason.

America’s eternal secular messianic temptation has now alighted on gender equality.

Changes in the threat posed by jihadi extremism are challenging our ability to adapt.

Spending even very large sums of money for defense in the absence of a strategic concept cannot ensure security.

Reform of brick and mortar banks is well underway, but the digital age poses new, often overlooked, challenges for monetary policy.

The tale of a songwriter, with American characteristics.