Libya elected a new Prime Minister yesterday, but within hours, the vote was declared illegal. That brings the total to a half-dozen PMs in the past three years.

American higher education suffers as much from inflated costs as from what Tocqueville considered middle-class morality: identifying ultimate freedom and fulfillment with work.

Rather than banding together, Pakistan’s media outlets are hurling accusations at each other in the aftermath of the shooting of a famous TV journalist.

Indians and foreigners alike yearn for a government in Delhi that can get things done. But it’s one thing to pray for a strongman like Modi to deliver you from the Congress party, and quite another to live under the reign of a “benevolent despot.” In addition, there are limits to what Modi will be able to accomplish.

War reporting has always been difficult and dangerous work. But as freelancers have replaced staff writers at cash-strapped news organizations, it’s time to think about how to provide them with a level of support and training necessary to maintain the quality of journalism we rely on as a society.

Can Martin Heidegger’s Nazism and antisemitism be separated out from his philosophical project?

More and more political scientists are abandoning Washington’s democracy promotion efforts. Experts increasingly think that such efforts are too complicated, too messy, and way too expensive—and often don’t work, anyway.

Nigeria’s crisis deepens: The government can’t seem to find hundreds of kidnapped girls, and Boko Haram is extending its reach outside the country’s northeast.

Make no mistake, Erdogan is a masterful and pragmatic politician. He may occasionally miscalculate, but he never plays a card without some calculation of a return.

Suicide bombs, IEDs, a worsening energy crisis—the news from Egypt is not good these days. But somehow the country is hanging on, for the time being.