President Obama’s message to the French was exactly the one we needed to send.

California’s health care budget woes are a warning sign to Americans: Our health care cost problem is getting worse.

Sri Lanka elected a new President today, and he’s much less friendly to China than the last one. This could hamper Beijing’s strategy in the Indian Ocean region.

Nebraska’s Supreme Court approved Keystone’s proposed route through the state, putting the ball in President Obama’s court.

Boko Haram razed the Nigerian town of Baga, killing up to 2,000 civilians by some estimates. The Islamists now control nearly a whole state in Nigeria’s north.

No one wants a bank panic. But if one starts to seem inevitable, isn’t it better to panic early?

Many of these oil sands projects will be going forward, Keystone or not, low prices or not, simply because so much money has already been invested. Keystone isn’t exactly a necessary piece of infrastructure—hence why oil sands emissions can’t be pinned on it—but it is the option that makes the most sense.

Most newly minted English PhDs don’t wind up at the sort of jobs they’re trained for, if they get an academic job at all. Think academia will change its ways? Think again.

Today is the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, in which a most American combination of a future President, a pirate, and freed slaves beat the world’s best army.

Most Americans don’t realize how unprepared they are for end-of-life care. Their misplaced optimism will make the coming eldercare crisis worse.