Barack Obama was supposed to be the President who mended ties and restored America’s image around the world. Instead, the world is rallying against U.S. leadership on many important issues. Internet governance is only the latest sample of the consequences of the President’s bad management.

Pakistan’s new army chief, arguably the most powerful man in the country, recently wrapped up his first foreign visit to none other than Saudi Arabia. Now that the possibility of an Iran-United States rapprochement has increased, the Gulf Arabs are looking to Pakistan as a possible counterweight.

ACA supporters can bask in some good news for the troubled health care law for a change. But do the numbers hold up?

Alaskan state legislators have just over a month to keep the ball rolling on a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) project that would help bring America’s glut of natural gas to Asian markets.

Egypt’s economic outlook got a boost from Fitch, which upgraded its forecast from “negative” to “stable” for the first time since the 2011 revolution. But the big question of the moment is whether military chief (and future president?) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his military colleagues can effectively keep the security situation from spiraling out of control.

China’s increased influence in Sri Lanka is bad news for India, which has grown estranged from its neighbor to the south. As India’s favor in Sri Lanka fades, China’s rises. That’s big news for the Asia’s grand geopolitical games.

An independent Scotland, it now appears, would not be able to keep the pound in a currency union with the UK and it would not be able to charge British university students higher tuition rates than other EU students. That throws two big monkey wrenches into the SNP’s case. Voters in the referendum on September 18 may just decide to stick with the devil they know.

Putin is the thorn in Obama’s side, the pebble in his slipper, the fly in his borscht. Whenever Washington seeks to get something productive done abroad, the Kremlin makes sure to drop a few banana peels on the road. A smart piece from Victor Davis Hanson over at the National Review makes a point about Putin that […]

Former two-term mayor of New Orleans and the face of its recovery from Katrina Ray Nagin has been found guilty on twenty charges of conspiracy, bribery and fraud. Like Detroit, New Orleans was the victim of an urban crime family masquerading as a political machine.

Banished from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews around the world may finally be seeing some indemnification. A new bill proposed in Spain promises the possibility of dual-citizenship for the Sephardic diaspora.