China’s sweeps of Muslim religious schools are part of Beijing’s latest effort to exert control over its far-flung provinces and minority populations.

Libya’s General Haftar claims to be behind today’s airstrikes on the Islamist militias outside of Tripoli. But there’s reason to doubt that.

Technology-flooded millennials read more books than Americans over 30. Neither declinism nor overweening optimism will help us understand generational shifts.

The Queen tells voters to exercise caution. The banks are telling everyone to start panicking.

A new study finds poorly cemented wells, not hydraulic fracturing, to be at fault for groundwater contamination problems associated with the American shale boom.

Catalan, Venetian, and Tyrolean independence movements find inspiration in Scotland.

A plan to break California up into six smaller states didn’t collect enough valid signatures to force itself onto a ballot. But California remains too big to function effectively, and some kind of decentralization is necessary.

The Muslim Brotherhood appears to have been kicked out of Qatar, perhaps due to pressure from the Saudis, Egypt and UAE. And reports indicate that the MB may be headed to Turkey.

A Department of Defense program is giving military surplus, including grenade launchers, to campus police forces. The militarization of America continues to reach new heights.

The U.S. shale boom has depressed global oil prices, which has in turn threatened petro-state regimes that rely on high crude prices to stay solvent.