Over the past 30 years, America’s swelling county jails have seen people kept behind bars for failing to pay to court fees. Reform can’t come soon enough.

With a new foreign aid policy that allows it to give money to foreign armed forces, the world’s third-largest economy moves closer to assuming a global leadership role.

A new poll shows that Americans don’t want to cut public employee pensions, but they won’t suffer higher taxes or fewer services to pay for them.

Iran’s power-producing capacity is far from keeping up with its demand for electricity.

Turkey tops the list of countries requesting Twitter censorship in the latter half of 2014.

A new report suggests divesting from fossil fuel holdings will cost university endowments “substantially.” Who would have thought?

This doesn’t bode well for European solidarity on Ukraine.

The Utah Department of Corrections is starting to budget for prison reform as legislatures aim to take it up in state bills. Republicans are helping to lead on this issue.

American natural gas power generation hit a record high this January, thanks to booming shale supplies.

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner moves to exempt union non-members from fees used to fund collective bargaining by public unions. Forget the new red Senate; the states are the places to watch.