MOOCs make education more affordable and more accessible for students of any age, but high-school stars, in particular, stand to benefit. By highlighting their talents through MOOCs, students at underserved schools, who could otherwise slip through the cracks, have a better shot at matriculating to top-tier colleges.

John Kerry put too much trust in Putin and too much faith in the doomed Geneva talks. He took a leap of faith and has suffered a crippling blow as a result.

The American public doesn’t hate Congress as much as it used to, according to a new Gallup Poll. Just last year, Congress saw its public approval ratings plummet to their lowest levels in history as Americans expressed their frustration and rage over congressional dysfunction and gridlock along party lines. Read the summary of Gallup’s findings here.Even […]

Green policymakers frequently overlook the innate complexities and unknowns of the natural world to push through clunky schema with their eyes on some pie-in-the-sky vision of the future. But there is good news for a smarter brand of environmentalists to grab on to: technological advances are helping us untie the Gordian knot that is our natural world.

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once said: “Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want.” Erdogan may have arrived at his intended destination, but in a compelling NYT op-ed, Mustafa Akyol urges his fellow countrymen to get back onboard and to “follow the example of one Arab country that has managed to avoid political gridlock: Tunisia.”

With Venezuela reeling from unrest and fiscal failure, and Argentina courting economic disaster, a Brazilian change of course would be a dire blow to the Latin left.

With a revolution on, the chances that events in Ukraine could provoke a dangerous confrontation between Russia and the West may be increasing.

Is Denmark sticking up for animal rights or allowing discrimination against religious minorities slip in through the back door? The government claims that a ban on the slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat simply prioritizes animal rights, but Jews and Muslims view it as a crude instance of interference in religious freedom.

Washington’s inability to move on the TPP, immigration, and the Keystone pipeline took the air out of Wednesday’s “Three Amigos” summit in Mexico. Obama’s troubles at home are beginning to hurt his international agenda.