Governments are sensing that the United States might not be committed to policing world order as it has since the end of the World War Two.

The UK just issued its first permit for exploratory shale drilling in five years.

Bargain oil prices may be slowing the shale boom, but nothing’s going bust just yet—far from it.

California’s famously idealistic governor has set his eyes (for once) on an eminently achievable and critically important goal.

The latest wave of the far-Right surge has not quite yet broken through the levee that the mainstream European parties have built up. But the levee is looking awful weak.

In 2016, it’s brinksmanship at a higher level.

The Russian state-owned gas firm Gazprom is being squeezed by supply, demand, and domestic political pressures.

Already suffering, the vital tourist industry takes another big hit.

The experiment in leftwing rule in Brazil began reasonably well under Lula, but it appears to be ending in tears.

Human rights activists have repeatedly struggled to grapple with the complexities of geopolitics in Southeast Asia.