Though he perhaps hasn’t yet made up his mind on how to proceed, Vladimir Putin appears to be lining up options for his next move in Ukraine.

California’s high taxes and onerous regulations are driving more and more film productions out of the state. Not even Hollywood can stand doing business in California.

As Crimea awaits Sunday’s referendum on whether or not to join Russia, some warn that a simmering Jihadist threat could turn the peninsula into the next Chechnya.

The Chinese foreign minister trotted out a stronger line on territorial disputes with its neighbors over the weekend. It’s almost as if China senses that the U.S. is too preoccupied with events elsewhere to offer a coherent response.

During Beijing’s National People’s Congress, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang escalates the verbal war with Japan. Meanwhile, China is making moves to shape Asia in its strategic image.

In the name of helping people attend college, Obama’s budget proposal seeks to expand access to student loans. But saddling graduates with more debt ignores the real problem: sky-high tuition, enabled by federal subsidies.

Yet another western plan for Ukraine ended in failure today. Will this hurt Obama’s standing in the Middle East?

From Mali to Nigeria to Somalia, a wide array of Islamist militant groups are taking advantage of weak states to sew chaos. The Pentagon is taking notice, but not necessarily in the way we’ve come to expect.

China’s restive Xinjiang province has long been a place of ethnic tension and separatist sentiment. Now, there’s been a vicious terror attack on bystanders in a busy train station in the city of Kunming, and authorities are saying terrorists from Xinjiang are responsible. Kunming is hundreds of miles away from Xinjiang. Is the remote province’s unrest moving eastward?

The foundations of Obama’s foreign policy have taken a serious beating over the weekend, with his desire to see a nuclear-free world perhaps one of the biggest casualties.