The American public doesn’t hate Congress as much as it used to, according to a new Gallup Poll. Just last year, Congress saw its public approval ratings plummet to their lowest levels in history as Americans expressed their frustration and rage over congressional dysfunction and gridlock along party lines. Read the summary of Gallup’s findings here.Even […]

Green policymakers frequently overlook the innate complexities and unknowns of the natural world to push through clunky schema with their eyes on some pie-in-the-sky vision of the future. But there is good news for a smarter brand of environmentalists to grab on to: technological advances are helping us untie the Gordian knot that is our natural world.

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once said: “Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want.” Erdogan may have arrived at his intended destination, but in a compelling NYT op-ed, Mustafa Akyol urges his fellow countrymen to get back onboard and to “follow the example of one Arab country that has managed to avoid political gridlock: Tunisia.”

America’s bastion of liberal ideology is under attack from the forces of capitalism. With a sense of inevitability, the Silicon Valley “peasants’ revolt” is underway.

It looks like Pope Francis’ Palm Sunday might be ending, and his Good Friday approaching.

With Venezuela reeling from unrest and fiscal failure, and Argentina courting economic disaster, a Brazilian change of course would be a dire blow to the Latin left.

A new poll founds that Americans want the Postal Service to stick around, even though few of them actually use it regularly. More importantly, Americans are on board with dramatic changes to make the service more efficient.

Even as the US tries to peacefully end the Syrian civil war through diplomatic negotiations, Iran is finding it more convenient to supply the Syrian regime with weapons, elite soldiers, and piles of cash.

With a revolution on, the chances that events in Ukraine could provoke a dangerous confrontation between Russia and the West may be increasing.