Under-built pipeline infrastructure is forcing drillers in North Dakota to set on fire the gas they can’t get to market. Flaring, as this process is called, hurts gas companies and Gaia alike, and landowners aren’t happy with it, either.

China declared its right to build ahead of a regional conference at which opponents hoped to stop China’s aggression. Well, not so fast.

The proposed CA high speed bullet train is our country’s biggest and most misguided boondoggle. But Gov. Jerry Brown is determined to double down on it at all costs.

With Ukraine advising civilians to leave Donetsk ahead of a battle with the separatists, and given Putin’s well-known unwillingness to back down, the situation could escalate into outright war.

India’s cancellation of a major WTO agreement while the U.S. Secretary of State was in town was just the latest in a series of slights that indicate an alarming decline in U.S. influence.

By calling in the army to Islamabad ahead of Pakistan’s independence day—ostensibly for general security reasons but plausibly because his rival Imran Khan is planning massive demonstrations in the city—Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may be headed for a showdown.

NYC’s public pensions are underfunded and, given Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent deals with teachers’ unions, even more overcommitted than before. What can’t go on, won’t.

The Obama Administration appears to be treating gains by terror groups around the world as separate, localized problems. But the whole, unfortunately, is greater than the sum of its parts, and that whole amounts to a global conflict that at the moment civilization cannot claim to be winning.

Even NPR is raising the alarm: Underfunded public pensions are turning to the Wall Street casino to try to square the circle of generous benefits coupled with unrealistic growth projections.

A new poll about the next Presidential election shows Marine Le Pen ahead of her main rivals. The European far right is becoming a force to reckon with in national politics, not just the EU parliament.