Russia can’t tap its massive shale hydrocarbon reserves without Western technology, and that’s led some to speculate that withholding the necessary technical know-how could be a weapon against Putin. But the West looks too divided—and the economic rationale for oil majors to partner with the Russians seems too strong—for us to count this as an arrow in our quiver.

A strong and rising China is something the U.S. should worry about—and so is a weak and unstable China. But perhaps most worrying of all is the fundamental uncertainty about which scenario we’ll see.

Fearing U.S.-Iran cooperation on a clean-up effort in Iraq, Saudi Arabia is warning foreign powers to stay put and stay out.

China has just added its voice to the amazingly diverse group of countries and people who oppose Scottish independence. Maybe it’s time for SNP to rethink its strategy.

France pays some of the lowest prices in Europe for its electricity, in large part thanks to its massive nuclear energy sector. But a new energy transition law aims to reduce nuclear’s share in favor of wind and solar.

Terrified by the conflagration in Iraq, ordinary Iranians have taken to cheering the Revolutionary Guard—which ruthlessly put down the protests of 2009. As fear sweeps the region, the likelihood of an all-out religious war only grows.

The AMA’s new guidelines for telemedicine are needlessly prohibitive. We need to rethink how we regulate health care in the age of smartphones, instead of importing old regulatory structures.

Responding to public outrage, The Met has canceled global simulcasts of its staging of The Death of Klinghoffer in 2,000 theaters and 65 countries—a clear admission of the opera’s potential to spread hatred. The eight New York performances should be canceled as well.

The conflict in Syria and its increasingly wide-ranging spillover threaten everything going on in the region, including U.S. efforts to forge a serious nuclear deal with Iran.

ISIS and al-Qaeda are CIA plots against Turkey, says at least one well-regarded Turkish journalist and intellectual. Hothouse conspiracy thinking like this helps explain the social and political problems in many countries.