Moderate Syrian rebels are under assault by both Assad’s forces and ISIS. They cannot be expected to hold out much longer.

China is considering developing technology to liquefy natural gas at sea, so that it does not have to build costly and difficult-to-defend undersea pipelines. In completely unrelated news, there is lots of natural gas in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

OECD data shows that health care spending is slowing down worldwide. While we still don’t know all the reasons why its happening, new medical technologies are playing a key role.

President Goodluck Jonathan is calling for greater funding to combat Boko Haram. Even if he is successful, however, money may not be enough.

Australia officially axed its carbon tax, to the delight of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his party, and the chagrin of environmentalists.

A new CBO report finds that the health care slowdown could give Medicare six more years of life. But this very limited piece of good news is further complicated by the fact we have no idea what caused it.

The debate about Obama’s foreign policy is not if it is working or it is is not; everyone agrees it is not working. It’s about whether there is anything Obama can do about it.

Pluralism, and not secularization, is the major contemporary challenge to religious faith.

Japanese regulators declared one of the country’s nuclear facilities ready for a restart, the first such preliminary approval since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Still, questions remain over the safety of siting nuclear power plants in the island nation.

As Iraq falls apart, the Kurdish representative in the UK asked that Kurdistan be allowed to receive Western arms directly in order to fight ISIS.