Bad zoning laws and other forms of overregulation are driving up housing costs in blue cities and pushing people toward red ones. Blue cities should focus on lowering the cost of living for their residents.

Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption party purge has set its sights firmly on Shanxi, a region rich with coal—and dirty officials. Even those closely connected to previous president Hu Jintao have been among the “tigers” targeted by the latest round of probes. Xi’s push to consolidate power at the very top continues.

Al Qaeda released a list of possible targets in the West as jihadi groups try to one-up each other.

New research suggests low response rates on telephone polls could be distorting official statistics.

The Obama administration is working on a voluntary international climate agreement that would skirt the need to seek Congressional approval, according to the New York Times. In doing so, it’s effectively turning its back on the feckless Global Climate Treaty movement.

Whether or not ISIS continues its run of military successes or retains control over the territories it has captured, it may have changed the image (and ambition) of terrorism forever.

West Africa is facing alarming food shortages along with the horrific Ebola epidemic. Aside from compounding the suffering in these nations, a food crisis will make this outbreak far harder to contain.

A radical new group has split off from the Pakistani Taliban, apparently inspired by the success of ISIS. A fracturing Taliban may sound like a weakening Taliban, but a diffuse group of enemies can be more dangerous than one big one.

According to California, elective abortions are “medically necessary” care that must be covered by all employers. The next big conscience fight could be here.

An FBI probe is investigating whether recent cyber attacks on the biggest U.S. financial institutions by Russian hackers may be state-sponsored. The new world disorder is getting messier by the day.