Charter schools and school vouchers have dominated most of the education debate over the past decade, but magnet schools are making a comeback as well. As a urban school districts begin to lose students to charter schools, many are looking to magnet schools as a way to compete.

Sunni militants in Pakistan recently kidnapped several Iranian border guards in a cross-border raid. Will Tehran’s increasingly belligerent demands to Islamabad for their return push Pakistan and Saudi Arabia even closer together?

Democrats are significantly more likely than independents and Republicans to believe that astrology is scientifically based, according to NSF research. So much for the “party of science” meme.

Is Secretary Kerry waking up to the reality that Russian and American interests sharply diverge almost everywhere? Could be.

Last week’s unionization vote at a VW plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee failed when union supporters came up just short. The vote is far from shocking, but it has crushed the dreams of many on the left for a new, labor-friendly South.

Tony Abbott is up in polls in Australia after vowing to crack down on labor union corruption. The labor movement’s troubles are not just found in the United States.

Vladimir Putin has been running circles around his Western counterparts lately, even though Russia looks nothing like a Great Power anymore.

A new poll by the Times of India released today found that India’s far right, Hindu nationalist opposition party, the BJP, will take home a record-breaking number of seats in parliament during elections scheduled for later this year. The tally for Congress, the current ruling party, is projected to collapse from its current 206 to a lowly 89, its worst ever showing since India’s independence.

A riot broke out in the Indian parliament on Thursday as politicians literally fought over the creation of India’s newest state, Telangana. An MP brought and used pepper spray, causing pandemonium and prompting the House Speaker to suspend 17 MPs.

The glitter of the Sochi spectacle hides the reality of an empire in decline. Is Putin’s profligacy hastening Russia’s nosedive?