Images of Erdoğan and one of his advisors beating up relatives of the people who died in the recent mining disaster are causing widespread outrage in Turkey.

This could get ugly, fast.

Japan is rearming and rethinking its approach to regional security. Today, Prime Minister Abe declared that Japan’s military should be permitted to come to an ally’s defense.

With anti-China riots continuing in Vietnam and China starting to build on a remote reef near the Philippines, things are getting hot in the South China Sea.

History’s largest election ended this week, results are to be released on May 16, and Narendra Modi looks set to win big. His victory will undoubtedly have consequences for U.S.-India relations.

Chris Christie’s sixth credit downgrade since 2010 ties him with former Democratic Governor James McGreevey for the most credit downgrades for a New Jersey Governor. Not all the blame lies with Christie, however. The embattled Governor inherited the state’s pension mess, and a Democratic-controlled legislature is reluctant to help him fix it.

Butcher Assad, Russia, and Iran are slowly winning the Syrian civil war.

Elon Musk and his electric car company Tesla are unlikely to build their next job-creating venture in the Golden State, where the company is based. California’s environmental review laws are so cumbersome that the green company is considering several red states as potential hosts for its new factory.

Over 30,000 Participants in Detroit’s pension funds are preparing to vote on whether to accept the city’s bankruptcy deal or to take their chances in bankruptcy court.

President Obama is a political webmaster and a master manager who also really knows how to wow an audience with his powers of speech. He is not a creative or independent thinker, however, as his Middle East legacy is starting to show.