With ten new Japanese patrol boats, the Philippines won’t be so outmatched in its dangerous maritime confrontations with China. The anti-China coalition is picking up steam.

After months of brinksmanship and feints, we’re legitimately in new, unpredictable territory today.

Bill de Blasio’s push to reduce violence at Rikers Island is slowly making progress. However daunting the problems, prison and jail reforms are desperately needed throughout the country.

Oil executives are bemoaning Europe’s anti-shale regulations, but those aren’t the only things holding back a boom on the continent.

A set of leading questions a PLA general would love to pose to Secretary Ashton Carter potentially reveal a dangerous misunderstanding of America among China’s elites.

A new study finds no evidence to link fracking to any “widespread, systemic impact on drinking water.”

Tehran doubles down on embattled leader.

Japan gets cozy with Australia and the Philippines: yet more evidence that China’s increasingly assertive regional strategy is pushing its neighbors into each others’ hands.

The self-employed, a rising segment of the labor force, need affordable health care. Any of the inevitable overhauls of the ACA which lie ahead ought to try to ensure this.

The EU is reportedly unified on the matter of extending sanctions against Russia, even as the most serious violence since the Minsk ceasefire flares around Donetsk. The Kremlin must be frustrated.