Don’t be fooled. Personnel cuts are part of broader effort to strengthen the Chinese military.

As the quantity of work has fallen, professional firefighters’ salaries are still growing healthily—Los Angeles saw the average firefighter making more than $142,000 in 2013.

As China turns inward, Africa stands to lose much-needed development assistance.

Scientists have found a way to genetically modify glow-in-the-dark, bird-flu resistant chickens. We live in interesting times.

Puerto Rico needs to have any financial relief tightly tied to serious, far-reaching reforms. Blank check bankruptcy protection, such as the kind being floated by Governor Andrew Cuomo, just won’t do.

Two continuities mark the life of the longest-reigning monarch in British history: one is the presence of accelerating, transformative change in every dimension of human life; the other is the smugness of establishments who assume that the important questions have been answered, and that nothing important will ever change.

Gazprom made its first move towards natural gas spot pricing this week, a move most welcome in Brussels.

Blue states taking modest steps toward making retirement benefits portable. Red states need to think of alternative models; helping moderate and low-income people prepare for a secure retirement shouldn’t be a partisan concern.

The oil price plunge is hurting green energy and exposing the folly of expensive subsidy regimes.

Some may have worldly motives, some spiritual. Either way, it points to a crisis in Islamic civilization.