Jordan is a valuable American ally in more ways than one, yet the US has been slow to show its appreciation. Lending the desert Kingdom a helping hand would be a good move for both countries.

California has pulled itself back from the brink of bankruptcy, but it’s not out of the woods yet. For the first time in a long time, California’s budget boasts a surplus, politics in Sacramento aren’t as dysfunctional as they are in Washington D.C., and Standard & Poor’s recently upgraded the state’s outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘positive’. All of that is good news for one of the largest economies in the world, but California must do more to protect itself against dangerous vulnerabilities.

A new report out of the USIP is debunking the popular idea that social media and democracy are natural allies. The media heralded social media tools as saviors of democracy, when in fact they were nothing but mere tools.

After years of decline, states are beginning to put more money into public universities. This shouldn’t be cause for relief, though; no amount of funding can reverse the changes coming to higher ed.

Serbia is set to build a monument to Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, atop its fortress of Kalemagdan in Belgrade. Shunting blame for World War I is all the rage these days.

Buddhist extremists are once again slaughtering Muslims in Burma’s Rahkine province. Somehow this hasn’t dampened western excitement over the country’s “democratic transformation.”

Critics of liberal arts education argue that it risks trapping students in low-paying, dead-end careers. But according to a new study, they’re wrong. Although they may start slow, liberal arts majors eventually earn more than their peers with pre-professional or professional degrees. Unfortunately, this isn’t true of humanities majors who only have a liberal arts bachelor’s degree.

The first fatalities in the ongoing protests in Ukraine may have forced government and opposition leaders to meet around a negotiating table yesterday, but the ceasefire subsequently reached is only the calm before the storm. Three hours of face-to-face talks yesterday afternoon yielded no results, and by nightfall the same three opposition leaders who had […]

Ethnic violence has erupted in Algeria’s southern desert city of Ghardaia this weekend. One man died, ten were wounded and homes and businesses went up in flames.The zone of instability that continues to form in the wake of the Arab Spring may be moving towards Algeria.

There are forces at work in American politics that keep any party from establishing a permanent majority. The major fault line opening up between New York’s most powerful Democrats, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, proves the point.