Merry Christmas and happy holiday to all!

Proselytization is a practice as old (and sometimes as divisive) as religion itself. Most recently, it has reared its head in India.

When your energy strategy is based on kind weather, you know you’re in trouble.

In 2010 we pulled out. Our Iraqi allies did not.

The militant group claims it downed a Jordanian plane, shows pilot alive.

Putin is ramping up funding for Russia Today and other state-controlled propaganda outfits.

The story of Hanukah—the “Sunday School” version, and what really happened.

It’s Christmas Eve today and time for the oldest tradition at Via Meadia: our annual Yule Blog when we update and present our thirteen posts of Christmas running from the preparatory Advent blog on Christmas Eve through Twelfth Night. During this holiday season in 2014-2015 we will blog on a light holiday schedule through New Year’s Day and on January 2 we will be back at full force.

How the country was indelibly shaped by Washington’s greatest deed.

Xi’s party purge marches ever onward, taking down the top aide to Hu Jintao, Xi’s most recent predecessor. But something looks different this time.