Only 40 percent of New York City voters support Bill de Blasio’s plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for an expansion of pre-K programs, preferring Cuomo’s tax-free approach. Cuomo is beating de Blasio on his home turf.

The South Korean edition of Maxim magazine should just stick to what it’s good at: racy photos of attractive women. When the editors deviate from their bread and butter content, like with the February issue, which features a stunningly insensitive headline, bad things happen.

House Speaker John Boehner decided not to repeat last Fall’s showdown and allow a vote on a “clean” debt ceiling bill. Many Republicans are angry with the speaker for caving to the President, but if it helps the party take the Senate their negotiating position next year will be much stronger.

Corruption, one of the most pernicious threats to global security and prosperity, thrives because it hides in plain sight. A provocative new book by Laurence Cockcroft helps us get around the thorny question of how to define it.

Marco Rubio has been pushing a series of higher-ed reforms as the 2016 buzz begins to build. Could this become a hot issue in the campaign?

In a major shift for U.S. policy toward India, the American Ambassador will meet Narendra Modi, the controversial Indian politician who is the current favorite for Prime Minister in this year’s elections. Seems like the State Department is considering “Prime Minister Modi” a real possibility.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan identified the latest conspirators that are out to sabotage his government: pornographers. The pro-government newspaper accused ‘porn lobby’ of instigating the violent protests in the wake of a new law that aims to control content on the internet.

What the eulogies got wrong about Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Niger’s Interior Minister called on France and the United States to re-intervene in Libya to fight jihadist groups. The West, he went on, needs “to provide an after-sales service” to the countries in the region who are still dealing with the Libya afterparty. Not surprisingly, the French Foreign Minister’s response was: absolutely not.

There are two reasons Americans need to pay close attention to the disaster unfolding in Puerto Rico. First is that thousands of our island friends are joining us on the mainland in search of opportunity. These are not hordes of low-skilled workers; things have gotten so bad in PR that its professionals and middle-class workers are fleeing. The second reason is that, while for Puerto Ricans the decay of their home seems excruciatingly slow, it’s enduring a sped-up version of what threatens some of our mainland blue states. Illinois should be watching with horror.