Small businesses are dropping health care coverage for their employees, threatening the future of the ACA’s entire small business program and increasing the cost of the law to the taxpayer.

Russian oil production is staying stable, even in the face of Western sanctions. However, Moscow’s longer-term outlook is a lot less rosy.

Nigeria is facing down a triumphant Boko Haram that grows ever more powerful. Is it now fighting not only for its sovereign territory but for its future as a state?

In 2010, 55 percent of Silicon Valley PAC donations went to Democratic candidates; this year, 52 percent went to Republicans. As the Valley warms up to the state, it might also be turning red.

A sermon preached on the eve of Yom Kippur by a Conservative rabbi in Seattle makes for some startling reading.

Take a break from watching election returns on TV and have a look at what we published today on the site.

Libya’s Gen. Haftar may be winning back Benghazi from the Islamist militias. That’s good news for the internationally recognized parliament in Tobruk, and its worried neighbor and backer, Egypt.

The friction over who should be #2 at the State Department hardly inspires confidence after a tough week for the administration’s foreign policy team.

How is it that Russia looped away from the Soviet matrix in the late 1980s, only to recreate so much of it between 1991 and now? The conclusion of a two-part essay. Read part one here.

With the deadline for nuclear negotiations with Iran fast approaching, can it really be that Obama Administration officials are counting on Vladimir Putin’s Russia to be a lynchpin for a final deal?