All hell breaks loose, contemplatively speaking, when a retired prof goes looking for her great-grandmother in order to find herself.

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.

Tenure is not the only or even the main reason that we have bad teachers in primary and secondary schools in California or elsewhere. But nevertheless, we should not shy away from asking, “Whom does tenure benefit?”

Just how large that problem is depends on whom you ask.

The World Cup might be more than just a celebration of jogo bonito, “the beautiful game.”

The fall of Mosul and Tikrit to ISIS is a wake-up call to all the states of the region: It’s time to put an end to the Syrian civil war and the sectarian mayhem it has spawned.

President Obama sounded the right notes in Warsaw last week when he reassured Central Europeans of America’s commitment to NATO. Now he needs to back that commitment by shoring up Europe’s northeast.

It appears to be. And its hostility is only likely to increase as the regime turns to forces such as nationalism to legitimate itself in the face of an inevitable slowdown in China’s rate of growth.

The United States needs to step up its aid to Ukraine, and impose more sanctions on Putin’s regime—and it needs to do so with or without Europe.

Alex Salmond wants to lead Scotland into independence on September 18—or does he?