A trend towards cutting back on unnecessary procedures could save patients real time and money. Unfortunately, some medical guilds aren’t eager to reduce waste that’s profitable to their memberships.

It’s time to start thinking strategically about how to deal with Vladimir Putin in a post-Crimea world.

Google was the second-biggest corporate spender on lobbying in 2012. Big Tech needs Uncle Sam’s help, and Washington needs a happy and vibrant Silicon Valley.

It’s time to restore Transatlantic security relations to their central place in U.S. national security strategy.

The IPCC has some suggestions for averting disastrous climate change, but rather than propping up current-generation renewables technology, we’d be better off funding the research and development of products capable of competing on their own merit.

Private colleges have fought against a federal system that would make data on graduation rates and employment outcomes available to students. This idea’s time may finally have arrived, however: Both parties have gotten behind it.

A brazen morning bombing of a bus station on the outskirts of Abuja marks the largest terrorist attack ever this close to Nigeria’s capital. Though no group has yet claimed responsibility, the Islamist group Boko Haram is the likely culprit.

Puerto Rico has a terminal case of the Blue Social Model. The island’s highest court has ruled that recent reforms of teachers’ pensions are unconstitutional.

On the heels of Japan’s recent apology to the Philippines for wartime brutality, the Japanese PM will meet with South Korea’s President to discuss the “comfort women” dispute.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott leaves Asia in triumph. He signed two free-trade agreements—one with Japan and the other with South Korea—and laid the groundwork for a third with China.