China’s President is attempting to purge rivals and promote like-minded officials in hopes of realizing his dream of a more muscular and assertive China. Will he get his way, or has he already gone too far?

Hemmed in by a perverse system, poor policy choices, and outdated guild practices, doctors are in the dumps.

The EPA reports that U.S. emissions fell by 3.4 percent from 2011 to 2012, and that emissions have dropped a stunning 10 percent since 2005. The chief driver of these emissions reductions: America’s new glut of shale gas.

Thanks to conveniently timed changes to the annual census, it will now be impossible to know if the ACA is working.

Iraq is as divided today as ever. Will the national election later this month herald a new, more inclusive and peaceful era? Or will it produce more of the same?

Los Angeles is reviewing the school board’s decision to shut down two high-performing charter schools for low-income students.

France’s lower house of parliament adopted a measure this week to ban all kinds of genetically modified corn. This kind of anti-GMO idiocy flies in the face of all the evidence we have on the matter.

In India, 90 million new workers will join the workforce over the next 15 years. Will the country capitalize on this demographic boom, or be consumed by it? And is Narendra Modi the man to answer that question?

Detroit is on the verge of a bankruptcy deal that is far more generous to pensioners than previous plans. How will the bond markets react?

The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram allegedly conducted the abductions on the same day that a massive bomb also rocked the nation’s capital.