In an act of highly provocative rhetoric, Naoki Hyakuta, an acting governor of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, has publicly denied that the Nanjing Massacre ever took place. This is not going to go over well with Japan’s neighbor across the East China Sea.

The African National Congress (ANC) has led South Africa since the end of apartheid without any serious opposition, but last week it appeared that might change with the announcement of a merger between two opposition groups. But it appears we may have all spoken too soon.

At the Munich Security Conference, German President Joachim Gauck implored his fellow countrymen to embrace greater responsibility in global conflicts. It may be a hard sell. A recent poll suggested 61% of Germans oppose expanding their country’s military involvement abroad.

A reason to second-guess declinism about manufacturing woes driving inequality: America’s energy and auto industries are leading the way in working-class employment growth.

Western diplomats may at last have woken up and smelled the coffee in the continued stand-off over Ukraine. After failing to appreciate the geopolitics of the Ukrainian issue and insisting on bureaucratic pettifoggery the first time around, let’s hope Europe’s foreign policy makers have finally learned their lesson and come to play hardball.

A new energy deal between Pakistan and Qatar suggests that Gulf Arabs are moving closer to Pakistan in an attempt to balance a rising Iran.

Abortion rates have fallen steeply since 2008 all across the United States—and not just in states with the toughest new laws. The public appears to be getting increasingly queasy about the practice.

According to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, half of American Sports fans “see some aspect of the supernatural at play in sports,” meaning that they either pray to God to help their team, have thought their team was cursed at some point in time, or believe that God plays a role in determining the outcome of sporting events.

A new report claims that at least 50 Jihadists from Indonesia have made the trip to Syria to join the fight against President Bashar al-Assad, and that number is expected to grow. For Indonesian national security, this is bad news.

Iran and Turkey took significant steps towards improving relations with each other on Wednesday, despite Washington’s protests. Whereas before Ankara might have waited for Washington’s green light on such a move, today it goes ahead without much of a second thought.