French President François Hollande has eliminated the left wing of his cabinet after it revolted against his austerity policies. The continued dysfunction of his government will likely only benefit his political rivals, especially his far-right enemy Marine Le Pen.

A conservative watchdog group claims Justice Department lawyers admitted Friday that Lois Lerner’s missing emails may be on a government backup system. If that’s true, then the IRS scandal really has arrived.

Prestige jobs have captured more than 76 percent of “total real wage increase” since 2000. Much of this growth has gone to careers that require specialized education. But all is not lost for lower-skilled workers.

China’s increasing aggression is beginning to alarm even peripheral players in Asia’s Game of Thrones.

The U.S. ousted Qaddafi and then left Libya. Now, as Libya collapses, we’re annoyed when our allies try to act in the power vacuum we’ve created.

Rosneft recently requested $41.5 billion in state aid, and Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev just acknowledged that Moscow might throw the state-owned oil company a lifeline.

In the pursuit of political goals and an anti-Israel message, Historians Against the War has abandoned the standards of its profession and adopted a stance that objectively supports Hamas’s war aims.

Russia is closing a symbolically important McDonalds location in Pushkin Square. Could this represent a possible fillip of hope for McDonalds Peace Theory?

Los Angeles has the highest rental rates in the country, thanks to bad zoning laws and counterproductive environmental regulation. But its problems are hardly unique.

The Energy Information Administration bumped up its projections for Mexican oil production in 2040 by 75 percent after the country recently passed a raft of energy reforms. The North American energy revolution rolls on.