An influential state-run paper is openly discussing the possibility of war, while Beijing accuses Japan of reckless maneuvering.

Several former colonies in East Africa are marking their Independence Days this month. Not that there’s much to celebrate.

AfD members quit in Holocaust-denial fight in Germany.

A leading law professor’s reading suggests that there is more to Fisher vs. Texas than meets the eye.

The foundations of international Chinese expansion are probably even shakier than those of a retreating West.

Mikhail Prokhorov, under pressure by the security services, is selling all his businesses. Putin’s regime eats its own.

America has more recoverable oil than any other country in the world, according to new estimates.

Africa is an under-appreciated new frontier for Israeli diplomacy.

October vote could trigger next intra-EU crisis.

Unfortunately, they don’t take their logic far enough.