Berlin is finally preparing to embrace the shale revolution. This move won’t just boost Germany’s energy security; it will also make the country’s energy mix greener.

In just a year public disapproval of Brazil’s government and of President Dilma Rousseff’s performance has skyrocketed. The Latin American socialist left just can’t catch a break.

President Obama’s former Ambassador to Syria says he resigned because the Administration’s policy was weak, incoherent, and was increasing the threat of terrorism.

Big Data applications are all the rage in health care right now, but centralized databases have limitations. We need to empower consumers, not give medi-wonks more excuses to exercise even more centralized control of the national health care bureaucracy.

Much like baking soda and vinegar, volcanoes and nuclear energy don’t happily mix. Japanese regulators are examining the threat the island nation’s 110 active volcanoes pose to its reactors as it gears up for a nuclear restart.

Modi seems intent on putting a more muscular India in the middle of the Game of Thrones in East Asia. He’s already deepening Delhi’s relationship with China’s rivals: Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and others.

France is moving ahead with selling two major warships to the Russian navy, despite pleas from NATO allies. The deal exemplifies the biggest impediment to U.S. efforts to stop Putin: the lack of European solidarity.

Licensing requirements have exploded in the past forty years, as professional guilds seek higher salaries at everyone else’s expense We need to make it easier for young people to enter professions.

It is very doubtful whether there are any “laws of history”. However, there are certain recurring sequences of events that make one suspect that similar circumstances are likely to have similar consequences. One such sequence is that movements of liberation result in repressive regimes.

The President’s recent remarks at West Point show that he doesn’t understand the rules of the game he’s playing with Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.