Germany has sizable reserves of shale gas—the EIA estimates as much as 17 trillion technically recoverable cubic feet of it—and a long familiarity with fracking. If it really is as green-minded as it claims to be, it would start fracking with gusto.

While the world feigned indignation and outrage when Edward Snowden’s revelations first put the spotlight on countries spying on each other, it hardly cones as a surprise that other countries do it too. The latest controversy arose as the Indian parliament proceeded to investigate a Chinese firm on snooping charges. Livemint reports: India has launched an […]

Cynicism about the future is widespread in America these days, a new survey finds. But in contrast to public perceptions, America’s prospects actually look pretty good.

In the early ’80s, Pittsburgh looked like it was headed for the kind of ruin we associate now with Detroit. What happened?

Cuba has unveiled a newly modified, world-class seaport, in a move to attract foreign investment and boost trade. The area surrounding the port will have laws making it easier for foreign firms to do business on the island nation. Is this Cuba’s Reform and Opening?

Even in Germany euroskeptic rhetoric is on the rise. But the Chancellor remains fundamentally pro-European and her rhetoric may be designed to stem, rather than to surf, the tide of popular discontent.

By demonstrating the costs of economic quackery, Argentina and Venezuela do more for the cause of global capitalism than the Koch brothers could ever dream of.

Don’t look now, but it appears our leadership class is waking up to the problem of rising global religious conflict.

The Woody Allen affair teaches us that one of the great challenges of our time is the need to judge absent the solace of absolute knowledge or the illusions of certitude.

Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland’s “F— the EU” remark may have been intemperate, but the U.S. has good reason to be frustrated with European diplomats who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. Another secretly recorded conversation released on YouTube makes it painfully clear that the EU just doesn’t get it.