Senator Tom Harkin calls for caps on grad student borrowing after an explosion in student debt. Bipartisan support for rethinking student aid policy is growing.

Erdogan’s AK Party won decisively in Turkey’s elections on Sunday despite increasing unrest over the past few years. If his victory speech is any indication, reconciliation is not on the horizon.

The unrest in Ukraine has encouraged Hungarian neo-fascists to publicly call for the annexation of Transcarpathia, citing Crimea as precedent. Putin is a role-model to far right politicians across Europe.

Enemies of Thailand’s Prime Minister are preparing to impeach her over the government’s allegedly corrupt and ruinously expensive rice subsidy program. But the PM’s supporters won’t let her go without a fight.

To understand what makes a dictator tick—and what separates today’s tin-pots from the tyrants of the past century—imagine you’re the man who cuts his hair.

The IMF deal with Ukraine will funnel up to $18 billion into an economy on the verge of collapse. Some of the largest beneficiaries? Russian banks.

Student loan debt is exacerbating the wealth gap between wealthy students and their less well-off peers.

California Governor Jerry Brown’s beloved bullet train is now expected to be slower than projected, in addition to being twice as expensive and used by half as many people. A majority of California voters now favor stopping the governor’s signature project. But Brown and his blue colleagues still face no serious electoral threat in their one-party state, allowing the high speed boondoggle to chug along.

As Russian forces mass on the Ukrainian border, polls in Russia show that further annexations would be politically popular. The West’s problem with Russia is about more than just the top man in the Kremlin.

Though the ancient Romans famously defeated the Carthaginians, today Tunisia, the modern-day location of Carthage, may depend on Italy for its survival as a newly democratic state. In fact, if Italy supports its ancient foe, the entire Maghreb region could actually benefit.