If you want to get businesses to support your cause, appeal to their interests rather than moral principles.

A South African bank set up to serve poor customers went under last month, leading to a ripple effect through its financial system. But this bank’s collapse shouldn’t put an end to efforts to get credit access for the world’s poor.

ISIS has more American citizens among its hostage. Historically, we have not taken threats to our people lightly. Will the American public soon echo Teddy Roosevelt in response to ISIS’ barbarity?

150 years ago today, the Confederacy’s fate was sealed.

A new Pew Poll suggests Americans are waking up to the dangers abroad.

The NYT’s coverage of Rotherham left out a crucial angle: religion. All publications have bias, but when that bias prevents you from recording key facts, you’ve failed your readers.

Just a day or two ago came the news that the Libyan government, such as it is, has lost control of its own capital—Tripoli—not long after losing control of its airport there. The rump government is holed up in Tobruk now while Misuratan and Islamist rebels (Ansar al-Sharia and others) roam the capital’s desultory urban […]

Indian PM Modi and Japanese PM Abe met in Kyoto to cement the two countries’ alliance in ways that China will not be happy to see: defense cooperation, a nuclear deal, and mutually beneficial infrastructural projects.

The weekend report on that global war Obama said was over: more terror attacks in the Middle East and Africa.

A regional German court has banned Uber in the entire country for falling afoul of licensing requirements. But the debate over Uber has much wider implications for whether the West will embrace or resist the benefits of technological change.