Industry is doing its part to address humanity’s role in climate change: a Texas plant aims to capture carbon being emitted from cement production and produce industrial chemicals.

The unpopularity of the Brownback revolution could threaten even the chances of downticket candidates. That is not a good sign for partisans of the Red Dawn in Kansas—or for those trying to export it elsewhere.

The anti-ISIS airstrikes may be building more coalitions than the one we intended.

Putin’s trip through Belgrade should be a stark reminder of the various places along the EU’s periphery where Russia can still make a mess if it so chooses.

There’s a better way between the contending libertarian and paternalist approaches to regulating drugs.

OPEC has chosen not to cut production to help stabilize falling oil prices, and in fact Saudi Arabia has started offering price discounts to customers in Europe and Asia in an attempt to gain market share. The Saudis are testing the chops of the American shale boom. Is fracking up to the challenge?

Two top businessmen in Germany have now thrown their support—and their money—behind Alternative For Germany, the country’s anti-Euro party. This is another step forward for the AfD’s legitimacy, but Merkel’s continued popularity will be a major obstacle to further growth.

Taiwan has announced that it may post permanent military ships at a port that is under construction on the one major Spratly island that it controls. That is going to irk countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, and especially China.

Lockheed Martin reported a major breakthrough in research on compact, modular, and scalable nuclear fusion reactors this week, and estimates that as soon as ten years from now it may have a production unit ready for market.

ISIS and the Nusra front may attempt an assault on Lebanon before the winter. But Lebanon should be more concerned that the threat will fan the flames of its own sectarian divide.