Nigerian President Buhari ran and won on his pledge to wipe out the Islamist insurgents. Looking at the uptick in violence during his first few days back in office, that might prove to be a tall order.

Thanks to data analytics the U.S. is fracking smarter, not harder, giving it the potential to outlast OPEC’s price war.

Toilet rumors rock parliamentary elections as the latest spat in the Turkish elections features accusations of a gold toilet in the Ak Saray.

Undeterred by depressed oil prices and decreased revenue, and spooked by Iran’s potential if global sanctions are lifted, the Kingdom is arming up.

The pressures buffeting McDonald’s illustrate one of the unpleasant but important truths about our service economy: it’s inherently more volatile than what came before.

The Eurogroup is presenting what amounts to a final ultimatum—so they say. Can-kicking on Greece has become a eurocrat pasttime, but the country is running out of options.

How the U.S. deals with Vietnam will be an important test of how serious its new, firmer posture on the South China Sea is. Beijing will be watching.

Congress’ passage of the contentious surveillance bill is less significant than either side will have you believe. But the issues motivating the debate are incredibly important.

A meeting of stakeholders of the anti-ISIS coalition met in Paris and concluded that everything’s going swimmingly. What kind of victories will ISIS need to score for a change in strategy?

44 percent of California’s policyholders are struggling to pay their premiums under the “Affordable” Care Act—and the problem is only going to get worse.