Another day, another feckless climate conference ends in deadlock. Delegates to talks in Bonn are returning home empty handed after two weeks of divisive discussions.

The Iraqi state in its historic territorial configuration is gone—solid gone, and it ain’t coming back. Time to start thinking hard about next steps.

Does liberal democracy depend on the existence of ideological and civilizational rivals to spur it into cycles of reinvention and renewal?

Starbucks announces a plan to provide free online education to its workers, in partnership with Arizona State University. It’s a feel-good story, but the move is about more than good publicity.

Walter Russell Mead writes in the WSJ that America can’t expect the world to follow its “optimistic script,” which developed over two centuries of uncommon good fortune.

VA employees who spoke out against fraud in the system through official channels were punished. Dozens of cases of whistleblower intimidation are now under investigation, and several of the whistleblowers are telling their stories to the public.

This is the kind of news we can’t get enough of: U.S. petroleum production hit a 44-year high in April, while oil exports were higher than at any point since 1999.

After a long-running dispute over unpaid bills, Gazprom finally acted on its threat to disrupt gas supplies to Ukraine today. Putin is busy turning the screws on Kiev—and on the West as well.

The Commonwealth Fund has put the U.S. last in its 2014 survey of first world health care systems. It’s yet another reminder that the ACA is no cure for the persistent flaws in our health care system.

As the Sunni group’s thrust toward Baghdad appears to have been slowed if not halted by Shiite militia streaming back from Syria, cracks appear to be forming in its coalition. The Obama administration should tread carefully.