Pope Francis has replaced Francis Cardinal George of Chicago with a new Bishop thought by many to be more “liberal” than his predecessor. But the reality may be considerably more complicated than the media’s honeymoon with Francis would suggest.

Hospitals and medical boards are pushing various medical specialities to dispense with unnecessary care when treating patients. So far, the results show that we can do just fine without some of the health care we get.

Francis Fukuyama and Karl Eikenberry make the case for learning from Britain’s historic example in Europe and pursuing a similar “offshore balancing” strategy in the Middle East.

The CDC and WHO experts release terrifying new predictions about the spread of the Ebola epidemic.

As President Obama begins to bomb Syria with no UN authorization and with a coalition of the willing, we wonder if in a quiet moment of reflection he wonders if he was too smug and too callow back when he poured contempt on President Bush.

As U.S. gas production rises, worldwide oil prices go down and the energy that we used to import can go elsewhere. That’s bad news for Russia in the long term, since its economy is so reliant on oil and gas production. In fact, Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom is predicted to lose 18% of its revenue

Today in New York, protesters have gathered to denounce the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of The Death of Klinghoffer, a dramatization of the murder of an elderly, wheelchair-bound Jew that is more than a little sympathetic to the terrorists who killed him.

Yemen’s government has agreed to share power with the Houthis. Iran pulls off another victory in the region at the expense of Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Indian PM Narendra Modi is pursuing a broad campaign to cut back the country’s “license raj,” which stifles business with reams of rules and regulations. It may be a promising start, but Modi has much bigger challenges to face in revitalizing India’s economy.

Hospital and doctors are responding to cuts in reimbursement rates by loading patients down with surprise out-of-network charges, often unnecessarily. Price transparency is a first step towards empowering the consumer to fight back.