The battle for the South China Sea is taking shape: with Vietnam, the Philippines, and now Indonesia on one side, and, surprisingly, Taiwan joining China on the other.

Unions are fighting to push new health care costs onto management. The fallout from the ACA’s cost-control failure continues, and it’s not likely to stop anytime soon.

Manmohan Singh was a weak prime minister by design, a new book written by his former spin doctor explains. But he achieved some successes in foreign policy, coming tantalizingly close to a groundbreaking deal with Pakistan.

The Financial Times has doubled down on its criticism of Professor Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed book. That an institution as august as the FT is going to the mat suggests that its editors have a lot of confidence in their own conclusions.

The results of Sunday’s elections in Ukraine show that “Finlandization” is not an option. Ukrainians have decisively chosen to turn toward Europe.

Are we seeing the end of an era of relatively moderate, centrist politics in major American cities? Rahm Emanuel’s recent poll troubles in Chicago suggest we might be.

It’s not just the rise of the far right parties that could make cobbling together a tough Russia policy a difficult proposition for Europe. Many EU states have close ties with Russia—and Vladimir Putin knows this.

The blue model approach that New York State’s Democrats have been pushing has done nothing for upstate New York’s job prospects.

China has a leader who understands the importance of military power, grasps that China’s backwards and corrupt military structure can’t serve as the foundation for true great power status, and has the power, the money and the will to do something about it.

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