President Putin is making his move in Ukraine’s Crimea, and once again the West is caught flat-footed.

The Department of Transportation issued new rules this week requiring companies to test and classify the oil they ship by rail. That’s a step in the right direction, but we should really be building out our pipeline infrastructure to handle our new sources of crude.

A Japanese government-appointed council of experts will review the country’s landmark apology to “comfort women”—those whom the Imperial army forced into sex slavery during World War II. This will definitely go well.

Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has backed the government’s attempts to persecute the Rohingya minority and ban inter-faith marriages.

Splitting California into six states doesn’t stand a chance in the state legislature or Congress, but venture capitalist Tim Draper’s effort to put the question before voters isn’t as farcical as it may seem.

Detroit’s new bankruptcy proposal is much more favorable to pensioners than bondholders, but it is still drawing fire from both sides. Will the city’s divide-and-conquer strategy work?

A grassroots national movement to bring price transparency to health care is gaining momentum. This is the kind of thing we should look out for if we want to find reforms that can bend the cost curve.

Hezbollah, in conjunction with the Syrian Army, just claimed a major victory in an ambush of Syrian rebel forces. Is the Iranian-backed Islamist group winning Assad’s war for him?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is on the brink of failure in both Japan and the United States. Can PM Abe and President Obama win over the naysayers, some of whom come from their own parties?

Big Pharma is growing more risk averse and lazy over time, but smaller companies are stepping in to experiment with bold new medical technologies.