China’s Muslim ethnic minority has long bristled at government repression, but unrest and violence are now on the rise as the distinct forces of Islamist ideology and nationalism grow in tandem.

It appears that researchers have managed to make a reasonably simple and practical invisibility cloaking system to work. While it’s not yet clear whether this is a serious breakthrough or more in the category of interesting parlor trick, it is a useful as a prod to thinking about the kind of innovation we need to encourage as a society.

The French rail workers union went on strike to protest the punishment of two of its members for being drunk on the job. No, really.

A new legal challenge to California’s ride-share companies shows once again that blue model bureaucrats are getting more creative in their war on the service.

Overweening devotion to ideals of technological and scientific progress has many universities churning out a utilitarian kind of education, one more suited to machines than human beings.

A major strike against the “Khurasan Group” shows that despite the focus of public attention on ISIS, the administration is also concerned with real live terror plots emerging from the lawless chaos that is the Syrian battlefield.

Strengthened ties between China and Southeast Asian countries have inspired much optimism, but fundamental asymmetries between them still threaten these new relationships.

As President Obama begins to bomb Syria with no UN authorization and with a coalition of the willing, we wonder if in a quiet moment of reflection he wonders if he was too smug and too callow back when he poured contempt on President Bush.

Yemen’s government has agreed to share power with the Houthis. Iran pulls off another victory in the region at the expense of Saudi Arabia and the United States.

A Chinese guided-missile destroyer stopped off at an Iranian port for a “friendly visit.” This is what revisionist powers testing the limits of acceptable behavior look like.