The University of California could lose up to $136 million in taxpayer and student money due to bad Wall Street investments.

Will Crimea secede from Ukraine? It’s not likely, unless actors in both Kiev and Moscow behave so egregiously that they end up destroying the very balance that has allowed Ukraine to work so far.

India has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest importer of U.S. weapons. No wonder: it’s got a lot to worry about from China and Pakistan.

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More than 40 states have passed some form of public pension reform in the past few years, yet the funding gaps continue to grow. Worse, many of these reforms exhibit the same short-sightedness that put state pensions in trouble in the first place.

A snap election earlier this month has done nothing to calm the volatile situation in Thailand. The economy is tanking, pro- and anti-government forces are gearing up for a fight, and the beloved King’s health is failing. This was once one of Southeast Asia’s most stable and prosperous countries.

Hear that sound? It’s the sound of European knees knocking together in response to Russia’s saber-rattling over Ukraine. Quelle surprise!

Venezuela’s anti-government protestors are building barricades to keep the increasingly violent government forces at bay. The geopolitical stakes may not be as high as in the Ukraine, but for Venezuelans, the situation is much worse.

As the latest round of peace talks in Pakistan wind down amidst reports of beheadings and bombings, recent events suggest that the military, if not the civilian government, may be gearing up to fight the Taliban in earnest.

Pakistan is beginning to aid the Syrian rebels in their efforts to topple Assad, moving closer to Saudi Arabia amid a growing rift with Iran and Syria.