Europe hasn’t solved its euro problem; it has exchanged a sharp, searing pain for a slow, debilitating burn.

Topping out today’s content is our all-star podcast, featuring Michael Barone and Steven Malanga talking about the Republican Congress and the Detroit bailout (respectively).

The leader of ISIS may have been wounded in a U.S. airstrike. But the slow pace of allied bombing is revealing our intelligence blind-spots.

The White House has nominated one of the President’s inner circle for the second-highest job at the State Department. It’s a smart move.

Evan Osnos offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of 21st-century China, whose rulers have their hands full trying to contain an increasingly diverse and demanding younger generation.

President Obama may have been handed a stinging rebuke in the midterms, but smart foreigners would do well not to conclude that he is therefore powerless to act in foreign affairs. Quite the reverse is true, in fact.

Disenchanted with the weakened Congress Party and fearful of Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP, India’s Muslims are turning to their own sectarian party.

Not even $57 million, spent by Tom Steyer, helped move the public on green matters. But this is not because voters suffer from ill-founded climate skepticism. Rather, the public is suffused with well-founded policy skepticism.

A graduate student talks to Berliners about the anniversary.

The Pew Global Attitudes Report, surveying both developing and high-income countries, finds that the United States was the country most opposed to the idea that success is outside of one’s control.