Americans are more skeptical of both big business and the federal government than ever. But this does not mean that some sort of libertarian turn is right around the corner.

A new study suggests that Keystone may have quadruple the effect on global emissions that the State Department reported it would have earlier this year. Unfortunately, these researchers fail to grasp a simple truth: that oil is coming out of the ground, Keystone or not.

The failure to anticipate Maliki’s coup is only the latest in a long line of US intelligence problems, which also include the failure to take ISIS’ true measure.

In the wake of a controversy over a Australian jihadi’s son posing with a severed head, it’s more clear than ever that Muslims communities must loudly and visibly condemn jihadism. If they don’t, tensions between Muslims and other religious groups could grow worse in the West.

It’s not just in the Middle East where the initiatives of the Obama Administration can be quietly ignored and brushed aside. China, too, is getting in on the latest trend in international relations.

The higher education business should look to earlier episodes of technological tumult to gauge its future.

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki deployed troops and delivered a midnight speech vowing to hold onto power for a third term no matter what. The timing couldn’t be worse for the US strategically or President Obama politically.

Hillary Clinton criticized her former boss on his handling of Syria, Israel, and Iran in an interview this weekend that had both political and policy implications. A must-read.

Hamas’ inability to pay its employees helped drive it toward a losing fight with Israel. With a mysterious donation changing that, could peace be closer at hand?

San Francisco’s new Bay Bridge was late, over-budget, and plagued by union corruption and shoddy design. And yet California’s leaders still want to build a high speed bullet train.