A ruling in California could have serious implications for public pension systems across the country.

The first patient to have fallen sick of Ebola in the United States was admitted to a hospital in Dallas. It’s difficult at times like these not to feel like you’ve woken up during the opening scenes of some awful disaster movie.

Call it for what it is: an old fashioned party purge. 250,000 communist officials have been caught up so far in a massive effort to impose central control on local officials, with signs now that the purge could be catching Chinese diplomats in its sweep.

Sisi is making progress to improve the Egyptian economy, but even if he can restore order, the fundamentals of the economy are still broken.

Modi’s speech at the UN points to a marked convergence of U.S. and Indian interests.

Can Beijing figure out what it takes to govern an increasingly sophisticated and affluent country in the 21st century? Or is it stuck in a dualistic mindset, where it feels it has no alternatives other than ugly repression or destabilizing capitulation?

Amid a growing consensus that Americans have lost faith in their country, ideas about strengthening institutions, on the one hand, and inspiring individual virtue, on the other, ought to be integrated.

As protests rage in Hong Kong and authorities sharpen their response, Chinese President Xi Jinping is finding it harder to connect with even pro-unification voters in Taiwan.

It’s easy to find oneself talking about the Ebola outbreak using generic terms, and for the numbers of casualties being bandied about to become a kind of numbing abstraction to the real human cost being borne by people all across West Africa—especially the children.

A Cuban pharmaceutical company was going to release fruity perfumes in honor of Hugo Chavez and Che Guevara. Alas, the project will never see the light of day, as the killjoys in Havana stopped the project.