The total amount of land used to grow crops has declined since 1998, while the global food supply has increased. We’re growing more with less, and proving environmentalist fear-mongers wrong in the process.

Australia hosts this year’s G20 summit, and ahead of that November meeting, it’s pouring cold water on the notion that the assembled countries will make much progress on addressing climate change.

Private colleges are suffering, and have been for a while. They are granting steeper and steeper discounts on what at first glance seem to be astronomical fees.

Ukraine’s recent battlefield victories could force Putin to choose between defeat and international isolation.

Despite recent protests, London regulators have decided Uber can continue operating in the city. But the fight isn’t over yet.

Demand for office space has historically mirrored the economic boom-bust cycle pretty closely, but many American offices remain vacant, despite the recent economic recovery.

Turkey revisited a disputed missile contract for the fourth time, giving hope to previously-snubbed U.S. and EU bidders.

As part of our ongoing project to update and improve the core documents of American history, we re-present the opening sections of the Declaration of Independence as they ought to have been written, and indeed as it would have been written if the still primitive colonial political process had only been sophisticated enough to restrict participation at important conferences to the appropriately certified, trained and peer-reviewed experts who could have produced a document worth remembering.

The UN takes aim at Australia’s immigration policy. While it is certainly draconian, countries do have a sovereign right to control their borders.

ISIS now controls trade routes vital to Iraq’s economy. This augurs ill for Iraq and the region as a whole.