Polish gas monopoly PGNiG is reporting cuts to its gas imports from Russia today. Kiev isn’t the only one threatened by the specter of a gas war this winter.

By the end of the month, Indian PM Narendra Modi will have met with the leaders of both Japan and China, and he will likely have secured lucrative trade and infrastructure deals with each. This looks like the start of a bidding war for India’s friendship between Asia’s two most powerful countries.

A new Department of Labor report shows health care spending rising even as incomes stagnate and overall consumer spending declines. Americans will be squeezed past endurance if we don’t make health care cheaper—and in some ways we already know how.

Late last week, we learned that Iran had given the high hat to the IAEA. Now we see that it is assiduously working to undo the sanctions regime by negotiating with Russia. Given the state of relations between Russia and the West, Iran may stand a good chance of succeeding.

Ever in tune with public sentiment, Obama pivots away from immigration reform. But will he pivot away from his new Middle East policies if polls sour by Christmas?

Two beheadings later, and the Iraq syndrome begins to recede into the distance, as President Obama readies the nation for its third Iraq war in 25 years.

According to newer and more accurate metrics than the ones still traditionally employed, the U.S. does not have as great an edge on China in terms of defense spending as most people think.

Two new studies show that under the ACA more people are using emergency rooms for primary care or other services that could be delivered more efficiently and cheaply at another venue.

A U.S. delegation will head to Moscow to deal with Russia’s violation of a landmark 1987 anti-missile treaty. Putin only understands power, and Russia’s nuclear arsenal is one of his largest instrument of power, so he is probably less concerned with some investigatory delegation than self-congratulatory Western leaders hope.

Ebola is springing back up in areas where health workers thought it was contained as carriers of the virus continue to travel about. How far will it spread next?