The disappearance of Lake Urmia is about water mismanagement, not climate change.

Christie is right to see waste in infrastructure, but his strategy for combatting it isn’t working.

“Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now, there is 3 million drug addicts [in the Philippines]… I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

It’s a big geopolitical gamble, with huge potential upsides for the Kremlin.

The weight of decades of unfunded pension promises made to Chicago’s teachers’ unions is coming crashing down on the city’s public schools.

If OPEC cuts output this November—a big if—American frackers will be cheering the loudest.

The Affordable Care Act has played a substantial role in encouraging this trend.

Is this a pressure valve letting off steam in the long-festering standoff, or a fateful step up the escalation ladder?

It’s not going to be easy for Duterte to make the Philippines into the Switzerland of the South China Sea.

Not the Onion.