The economically disadvantaged students at Cristo Ray Columbus High School in Ohio graduate both high school and college much higher than other students with similar backgrounds. This is what good teachers, school choice, and innovative thinking can do.

Water use is a prime example of economic activity in which poor pricing mechanisms have led to dangerous waste and overconsumption—and in this case, massive droughts in California. Some say it’s time to make water more expensive.

A Seattle socialist group has posted a want-ad for a new employee at $13 per hour, despite campaigning for a $15 per hour living wage.

In order to not run up against EU regulations and technically slip into its third recession in six years, Italy is changing the way it calculates it GDP figures. How? By including revenue from the thriving cocaine and prostitution markets, of course.

Egypt’s hard-line Islamist party is looking for female candidates. There’s only one catch: They can’t be seen or heard.

Aspiring African American homeowners are still deep in the recession. From 2013 to 2014, foreclosures increased by 50 percent in Maryland’s Prince George’s County, which is majority black. The erosion of the black middle class, just as it was starting to come into its own, is one of the greatest social policy failures of American history.

Earlier this year, Keystone was the hottest energy policy debate in town. Why has attention to the pipeline project faded in the run-up to November’s midterm elections?

Are U.S. combat operations unduly hampered by legal oversight?

Putin denied reports that the Russian government’s budget is being threatened by dropping crude prices, but the data tells a different story. Petrostates around the world are watching a bearish oil market with increasing concern.

Putin and Poroshenko have separately announced that they worked out the bones of a deal for getting gas flowing into Ukraine again for the winter. That’s good news for beleaguered Ukrainians, but it’s certainly not a win for anyone but Vladimir Putin. He is getting what he wanted all along, a lever he can pull on and get western money.