Entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg has raised a million dollars from serious investors to produce a portable ultrasound machine that will be cheaper, faster, and more precise than existing technology. If it succeeds, it will have wide applications—but one unexpected effect may lie in discouraging abortions.

The National Security Council may be hampering our national security, suggest Pentagon insiders.

A Chinese state-run paper pours cold water on the prospects of a historic Xi-Abe summit at the APEC conference.

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 first of a two-part essay.

Russia’s recognition of separatist elections in eastern Ukraine was met with a chorus of impotent grumbles from the West.

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Problems with the Italian economy go far deeper than the Euro.

The standoff between India and China along their shared border might get less attention than Beijing’s games of tug-of-war over various islands, but it’s no less important—or fraught.

President Compaoré was a cornerstone of the West’s (and in particular France’s) anti-jihadist efforts in the increasingly lawless Sahel. What happens next is key.

A recent spate of grave robbery and looting in Jordan highlights the disappearing art and cultural heritage of the Middle East.