The highest court in Illinois has ruled unconstitutional the City of Chicago’s last-ditch efforts to stabilize its woefully underfunded pension system.

Education, electricity, and housing costs have risen substantially over the past two years.

Connecticut Democrats are going after Yale, for the same reason Henry VIII went after the monks and Willie Sutton went after the banks.

The Russian President has a plan in the Middle East. Next step: raise the price of oil.

There really are problems in Africa that we should be focusing on, but they don’t fit the preferred narratives of the Afrophile establishment.

A bearish oil market isn’t keeping Texas from attracting hundreds of thousands of new residents.

The world keeps getting uglier, and the American political establishment keeps getting more and more caught up in glittering fantasies and theories about inevitable liberal triumph.

The world is producing mass murders and genocidaires much faster than courts can try them.

State governance would proceed more smoothly if leaders focused on getting the basic job done before taking on elaborate special projects.

With all the crises in the Middle East and Europe these days, it’s easy to miss that things aren’t going very well in Asia either.