Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a new strain of the Spanish flu that is even deadlier than the original. They say it’s to stay ahead of natural flu evolutions, but we all know how this ends.

“Patent trolls”, which exist solely to sue productive companies for patent infringement, are becoming a major threat to tech innovation in the United States.

Butlers have become the face of the new service economy. But their lives are more complicated than many suggest, and the jobs of the future will likely be far more fluid and flexible.

Rhode Island is a petri dish for liberal policies. Now it’s suffering from sky-high unemployment, government overreach, runaway spending, and condition known as “Rhode Apathy.”

Tenure is not the only or even the main reason that we have bad teachers in primary and secondary schools in California or elsewhere. But nevertheless, we should not shy away from asking, “Whom does tenure benefit?”

Two recent archival releases strengthen the case that Jimi Hendrix was more like Bach than he was like The Beatles.

Germany will no longer issue credit guarantees to exporters selling nuclear material in risky markets. But many developing nations could use a zero-emissions source like nuclear.

Chinese and Japanese fighter planes have been buzzing each other over the hotly contested Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Given the lack of emergency hotlines between the two powers, this is an exceedingly dangerous situation.

The Ukrainian government has won a victory over pro-Russian separatist forces, but the conflict between the two sides could just be getting started.

President Obama advised Iraq to smooth over sectarian divisions in his speech today on the fast-moving crisis in the Middle East. But he overstated the political dimension of the crisis, giving short shrift to the reality that if ISIS consolidates its gains, any reforms by Maliki will be as good as useless.