A jury will decide once and for all whether 160,000 Uber drivers in California are independent contractors, as the company contends, or traditional employees, as the plaintiff in the class action suit argues.

Russia and Venezuela are both reeling from bargain-priced oil, but there’s little the two countries can do about it bilaterally.

The $15 dollar minimum movement is a good way to send manufacturers packing, and stop the recent uptick in American manufacturing.

The world is set to blow past one of the most widely-cited climate warming limits, according to new research.

Producers are pioneering new ways to dramatically increase shale well outputs by “super-sizing” the scope of operations.

William McKinley was probably the most successful as well as the most important president in the generation between Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

A new EIA report paints a generally favorable picture of lifting the export ban and opening up U.S. crude to the global market.

Europe’s immigration crisis shares similar features to the euro crisis. What other land mines are out there?

Trade between China and Russia is down 29 percent this year. It’s the latest piece of bad news for the Russian economy.

If the latest crime boomlet turns into a boom, the criminal justice reform consensus could evaporate in a heartbeat—no matter what the source of the boom may be.