Yesterday Credit Suisse pled guilty to conspiring to help U.S. account holders evade taxes. The Justice Department’s planned punishments—hefty fines and criminal cases against senior staff—strike the right balance between stabilizing the markets and making certain that justice is served.

An able and confrontational leader who is close to Japan, Modi could become a problem for China.

The FT’s Edward Luce calls Obama’s current energy policy “one of the above,” and criticizes the President’s overreliance on shale gas to power this country. We’re living high today, but we need to continue to plan for tomorrow.

What kind of culture war issue could ally Catholics and feminists against Evangelicals and gay rights advocates? Meet the “gestational carrier” for hire.

College kids must be running out of objects of righteous indignation. The latest campus scourge is the emotional harm wrought by…the books that make up much of the liberal arts curriculum.

A renegade Libyan general has launched attacks against Islamists and stormed parliament, whose leader is now mobilizing Islamist forces in response.

Though he initially endeared himself to the Maidan, the current front-runner in Ukraine’s presidential elections may be a status quo candidate after all. And Vladimir Putin seems to approve.

China is in the process of rescuing its citizens from Vietnam, and Hanoi is now trying to put a stop to the protests. But there are hints that a Chinese military convoy may be approaching Vietnam’s border.

Putin visits Xi in Beijing on Tuesday, and the biggest item on the two world leaders’ agenda will be the possible signing a long-discussed natural gas deal. Unfortunately for Vlad, China holds most of the leverage in these talks.

The real reason Putin annexed Crimea may have had more to do with vast energy reserves just off its coast than any sentimental attachment to Russian empire.