To meet EU greenhouse gas targets, countries in Europe have encouraged the roll-out of new fleets of diesel-powered vehicles. These cars may get better gas mileage, but they’re also polluting the air with harmful nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter.

A friendly reminder for our readers who may be counting on a state pension: Assurances from city and state officials that these obligations will be met should be taken with a gargantuan brick of salt.

Americans are finally having more kids, bringing a happy end to the “baby recession.” But we’re still well below the replacement rate.

Just days after Vladimir said that he would respect the outcome of Ukraine’s election, pro-Russian forces shot down a helicopter in Donetsk, killing 12.

As Egypt “counts its votes” and Syria prepares for its own bogus elections in early June, a real and highly consequential democratic process continues into a critical phase in another Arab country where such a thing was for decades even more unlikely: Iraq.

New research out of Germany finds a correlation between high frequency pornography watching and small brain size. This is just the latest of growing body of research raising troubling questions about the effects of pornography.

China and Vietnam’s battle over the South China Sea heralds seismic developments in East Asian geopolitics.

Anti-EU parties staged their strongest showing ever in Europe’s elections last weekend. Is this the beginning of the end for the European project?

Obama is slowly edging into a more interventionist stance in Syria, which includes a plan to arm moderate rebels. Hopefully this move represents a well thought out strategy, rather than a PR move intended to silence his interventionist critics.

The Republican Study Committee has GOP alternative to Obamacare, and wants to bring it to the floor before the August recess. A long last we might finally have a proper health care debate between serious alternatives.