Congressional efforts to codify sanctions against Moscow are being held up in the House. Score a victory for the Trump Administration, and for the Executive Branch in general.

By projecting a unity of purpose with France, Merkel is cleverly outflanking her rivals as she cruises toward a fourth term.

The state that gave President Obama a national career is crashing and burning, taking the hopes of its poor with it.

An empty gesture by the Europeans to help negotiate a deal with North Korea may nevertheless have real consequences.

A simple (partial) fix for the campus free speech crisis.

The U.S. shootdown of a Syrian plane is only the first sign of the coming troubles.

The death of Otto Warmbier could be the clearest test yet of Trump’s Jacksonian instincts.

The wounds tearing at the EU are far from healed.

Shinzo Abe’s troubled economic program seems to have turned a page, but it’s too early to declare mission accomplished.

Researchers are genetically modifying cow gut bacteria to help reduce methane emissions.