Russia announced that it won’t attend the 2016 nuclear talks that Obama will host in Washington. That hardly inspires confidence in Russia’s potential role in Iranian nuclear negotiations.

Our military budget has been substantially reduced, but the Republican upset in the Senate might herald a change.

The outlines of a frozen conflict are emerging in eastern Ukraine. Putin must be pleased.

The candidate who championed school reform in California’s race for school superintendent was vanquished by the union-backed incumbent.

A small Texas town near the epicenter of the shale boom banned fracking this week, and in so doing highlighted one of the United States’ biggest strengths.

In a warning to the GOP, voters who care most about health care broke Democrat in these midterms a lot more than in 2010.

The midterms are over. Here’s what we wrote about in their wake.

The Saudis cut the price of crude sold to the U.S. this week in what many see as a bid to squeeze out shale, but the world’s petro-states could lose a lot in this game of chicken.

A filibuster-proof majority in the Senate in support of the Keystone XL pipeline may force the President’s hand on the controversial project.

Following months of ineffective student protests, and under threat of arrest and imprisonment, the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood are increasingly considering the violent tactics and ideology of ISIS in their fight against Sisi and the Egyptian government.