President Obama took to the pages of Time to pen a paean to Narendra Modi. Though the optics are a bit strange, it’s the right idea overall.

Secretary Clinton showed support for corn ethanol this week, but the policy’s merits (or rather, lack thereof) are more troubling than her “flip-flop.”

Hillary Clinton has come out in support of President Obama’s community college proposal. The idea hasn’t gotten any better since the President announced it.

Greece is running out of money fast, and is even trying to weasel out of upcoming payments to the IMF. Yet, at the same time, it’s negotiating with Russia to buy S-300 missiles.

During his annual call-in show, Vladimir Putin predicted that Russia’s economy will recover in less than two years. Place your bets now, folks.

The former head of Britain’s National Health Service Sir David Nicholson warns that “managed decline” could be coming to British health care—and emergency action will be needed to shore up its finances.

Scientists are tripping over themselves trying to explain the slowdown in global warming. So much for “settled science”.

Objecting to “the economic disruption of the digital age?” Good luck with that.

Eastern Ukraine looks set for another round of serious fighting.

Japanese citizens won a court ruling stopping two nuclear reactors from restarting. The island nation has few good energy options.