In the run-up to a parliamentary vote on reinterpreting the constitution, Japan is taking lots of little steps away from its official post-war pacifism.

A new report shows an anti-boy bias in modern education. For the sake of the children, it’s time to think outside the blue box.

A new EU ruling claims France’s laws on child abuse aren’t good enough because they don’t explicitly outlaw spanking. But majorities in both France and the UK disagree.

More than a few NATO countries could stand to follow his example on defense spending.

A German minister criticized EU members’ support for nuclear energy, conveniently forgetting his own country’s huge renewables subsidy regime.

Italy wants Russia to get involved in Libya.

The Kremlin is decrying the arrival of U.S. military trainers in Ukraine. But it’s not exactly the greatest challenge the West could have mounted to Russia’s revisionist agenda.

Saudi Arabia’s press and diplomats are getting more vocal in their concerns about Iran—on which they agree, if tacitly, with Israel.

The U.S. might not have a raw shortage of doctors as much as it has a hard time empowering other care providers and getting care to non-urban areas.

Oil’s supply outstrips demand by almost 1.5 million barrels per day, and we’re running out of room for storage.