The financial crisis in China took an ominous turn for the worse yesterday as investors dumped shares despite government-led measures to stabilize prices. If this continues, it could be the biggest story of the year; maybe of the decade.

In an effort to stave off a financial bust, China has ordered traders buy billions of dollars of shares. The market’s response was lukewarm.

Greece has failed the euro, and the euro has failed Greece. An exit from the euro shouldn’t mean exit from the EU, but It’s time to untangle this mess.

ACA premiums appear set to spike dramatically. Obamacare may be more of an albatross around the Democratic party’s neck than a star in its crown.

As Americans guzzled and gulped their way through the 238th annual celebration of the Declaration of Independence, China’s financial markets writhed in what some analysts warned could be the Big One— the long expected bust that would end the world’s longest economic boom.

More than 40 years after Roe v. Wade, a new report finds that Americans are not only choosing to restrict abortion more tightly, fewer Americans are choosing to have them. American individualism is predicated on a deep respect for human life.

Pope Francis pointedly spoke of the Armenian genocide at a service this weekend. His remarks are an important reminder that Christians around the world—in Africa and the Middle East specifically—are facing a savage and implacable enemy in militant fundamentalist Islam.

The comments of Abe’s ex-advisor signify that even very conservative Japanese are starting to think about the “unthinkable”: the necessity of increasing immigration.

The hard times for its people are going to continue until Gaza finds a government that Egypt, the Gulf States, and Israel will accept.

The administration has persistently avoided dealing with the most serious critics of its Iran policy.