As Iraq looks teeters on the verge of outright collapse, it looks like the White House has yet again been caught flat-footed by events.

The House of Representatives moved to block a budget airline from offering cheap flights to Europe on Tuesday at the behest of established airlines and unions.

The fall of Mosul and Tikrit to ISIS is a wake-up call to all the states of the region: It’s time to put an end to the Syrian civil war and the sectarian mayhem it has spawned.

Obama expands access to a loan forgiveness program by executive order. The move will excite his supporters but won’t do anything to solve the student debt debacle.

Bulgaria will halt development of a Russian gas pipeline to Europe. The biggest impediment to stopping Putin has been a lack of European solidarity, so this is one small step in the right direction.

President Obama sounded the right notes in Warsaw last week when he reassured Central Europeans of America’s commitment to NATO. Now he needs to back that commitment by shoring up Europe’s northeast.

New polls reveal a rising tide of anti-Americanism in Germany, and it’s starting to affect the country’s foreign policy. This is exactly the kind of thing Obama’s “smart diplomacy” was supposed to fix.

Pour saltwater on most crops, and they’ll wither and die. But soak a halophyte in saltwater, and it’ll grow, baby, grow! See the advantages yet?

A majority of Americans now want the 2009 health care system back. But both sides of the aisle are contemplating a change to the law that could increase the public’s distaste for the law in the short term.

Europe is struggling to respond to a flood of migrants coming from Africa, while the U.S. has seen a spike in the number of unaccompanied children crossing its border. As tragic as these stories are, nations do have the right and the duty to patrol their borders.