In Los Angeles, labor leaders seek exemption from $15 mandatory minimum wage for their own members. Bargaining flexibility is only for the privileged.

The United States should export energy in the form of oil to allies and leverage a new American petro-diplomacy against adversaries.

The Armenian genocide is not the only mass slaughter of the 20^th century to go unfairly unrecognized. It is past time to acknowledge these genocides as such.

A pizza shop, a national uproar, and the emergence of a new class configuration.

Palestinians in Syria have been swept up in the horrific violence. What is the response of the Palestinian Authority?

There is no alternative to alignment with Europe for post-Soviet countries.

President Obama believes that a nuclear deal with Iran could produce “a new geopolitical equilibrium.” So far, our allies in the Middle East aren’t buying his assurances.

But what was the cost? The ship’s management firm reportedly put up a down payment for the settlement, but the Tigris’ release was preceded by an explicit standing down by U.S. Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

Moscow throws a monkey wrench into the EU’s plans to reduce migration across the Mediterranean. It’s part of a recent pattern of “spoiler” behavior by Russia, and it should not be rewarded.

There was a real legal dispute between the Dutch shipping company and an Iranian firm. But none of the backstory fully explains Iran’s aggressive move.