Putin’s goal is clear: to dismember Ukraine in whole or in part as a means of restoring Russia to great power status. The West has few opportunities left to prevent Moscow from achieving its end game.

Whopping Cough was once nearly extinct, but wealthy, often highly educated parents have brought it back under the influence of a pernicious form of fashionable thought.

For years Qatar has played a brilliant a double game between Islamism and the West, offering aid and comfort for the forces of the former while doing the bare minimum asked of it by the latter. But is this act beginning to wear thin?

A round-up of prominent reactions to the President’s speech from the Arab press.

Hundreds of Western jihadis were turned away—thousands more made it through. What happens when they head home?

France will blow past its deficit cap for a third time thanks to a weak economy and slow growth. This instability, even if only indirectly, will help the rise of the country’s far-right critics.

The President’s speech was good as oratory, but the lack of understanding of what is really going on in the Middle East means that the strategy the White House seems bent on pursuing is unlikely to succeed.

Following a long-running price dispute, Russia shut off gas flows to Ukraine in June. Now, Gazprom is reporting a 41 percent loss in first quarter earnings.

Technology giants and executives do a very good job of raising their kids to use technology responsibly and sparingly—all while they promote and profit from the public’s indiscriminate use.

Tuareg fighters, prominent in Qaddafi’s Libya and Mali’s Civil War, may have been discovered among Boko Haram militants in Nigeria.