Competency-based degrees and three-year degree programs promise to help shift higher education from a “time served” to a “stuff learned” model. But students still long for the “full college experience.”

As the Nigerian state struggles to respond to Boko Haram’s conquest of the north, vigilante volunteers are taking up the fight.

Pope Francis has just issued new guidelines for all Vatican departments that push his financial reforms of the Vatican’s corrupt finances ahead. This is a drastically under-reported part of his legacy-in-the-making.

Russian tanks and artillery are again rolling over the Ukrainian border, in an apparent violation of the Minsk ceasefire.

Paris sets the stage for another postponement of its contentious deal to sell two Mistral Class warships to Moscow.

The papers are full of news of a potential rapprochement between China and Japan.

Scientists have successfully tested an antibiotic-free drug. This could be the first steps to solving the problem of the growth of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

A review of Joel Kotkin’s latest book, a look at disintegrating Libya, and the possibility that the midterms mean a fresh look at military spending.

As Germany walks back some of its renewable energy subsidies, those who bought in to the green hype are being left high and dry.

Libya’s supreme court has dissolved the UN backed parliament. Libya is a broken nation, and the United States broke it.