The Supreme Court said that Argentina had to tell US bondholders where it was keeping its assets around the globe and had to pay creditors back in full from its 2001 default, in a pair of rulings that delivered a body blow to the South American republic yesterday, and may have important repercussions well beyond its borders.

Thanks to fracking, the U.S. is dominating the refined petroleum products market. A new IEA report predicts that the rest of the world will jump on the shale bandwagon by the end of the decade, but America has built up an impressive head start.

Ebola has claimed seven more lives in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. These are the first cases in Liberia since April—which only proves of how difficult it is to manage and contain this horrible disease.

Europe can’t afford to ignore the havoc brewing in the Middle East.

How Western central bankers and Treasury Secretaries cater to illicit drug syndicates, money-launderers, racketeers, and kleptocrats.

A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses. Do they meet somewhere in the middle, or pass in the murk of half-baked pseudo-syntheses?

Even lawyers and doctors may soon face competition from robots. But the technology revolution also offers the promise of a richer, fuller life for more people than ever before.

Things aren’t quiet on any front these days, even outside of Iraq. Witness the recent, deadly religious riots in Sri Lanka, the continuous persecution of the Rohingya in Burma, and Sunday’s terrorist attack in Kenya.

President Obama ended a transit strike in Philadelphia by executive order. Democrats are increasingly forced to choose between the interests of consumers of government services and the unionized providers of those services.

In Nigeria, Boko Haram and #BringBackOurGirls are just one side of the story. As in much of Africa, terrorism, lawlessness, and state powerlessness exist alongside economic growth and rapidly declining poverty.