The move puts Israel on the path to becoming an energy giant, as well as strengthening the emerging Sunni-Israeli alignment.

Typical: the World Trade Center train station is eight years behind schedule and $2 billion over budget. This is why we can’t have nice things.

China has shut down hopes for real democracy in Hong Kong, instead instituting a system under which HK leaders must be approved by Beijing. Chinese leaders have wanted to do that for a long time, but they are following through now at least in part because the West has proven it will not stand up to authoritarians and expansionists.

The Nigerian Islamist group is rapidly approaching a point where, like ISIS, it becomes a territory-owning statelet with a conventional army.

One-third of large companies will offer their employees high deductible plans next year. Everything we know so far about health care spending suggests big savings could be ahead.

Local Chinese authorities are paying minority populations to intermarry with the Han majority. This tactic is part of the government’s program to solidify a coherent national identity that can legitimate its regime.

France’s plan to deliver powerful amphibious assault warships to Russia was one of many signs that the West did not have the resolve or the solidarity to take a non-nominal stand against Putin. Are Western leaders getting a clue?

Horizontal well drilling and hydraulic fracturing have oil fields in Texas’s Permian Basin booming anew.

A South African bank set up to serve poor customers went under last month, leading to a ripple effect through its financial system. But this bank’s collapse shouldn’t put an end to efforts to get credit access for the world’s poor.

ISIS has more American citizens among its hostage. Historically, we have not taken threats to our people lightly. Will the American public soon echo Teddy Roosevelt in response to ISIS’ barbarity?