Ebola has claimed seven more lives in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. These are the first cases in Liberia since April—which only proves of how difficult it is to manage and contain this horrible disease.

Europe can’t afford to ignore the havoc brewing in the Middle East.

Even lawyers and doctors may soon face competition from robots. But the technology revolution also offers the promise of a richer, fuller life for more people than ever before.

Things aren’t quiet on any front these days, even outside of Iraq. Witness the recent, deadly religious riots in Sri Lanka, the continuous persecution of the Rohingya in Burma, and Sunday’s terrorist attack in Kenya.

President Obama ended a transit strike in Philadelphia by executive order. Democrats are increasingly forced to choose between the interests of consumers of government services and the unionized providers of those services.

Another day, another feckless climate conference ends in deadlock. Delegates to talks in Bonn are returning home empty handed after two weeks of divisive discussions.

Starbucks announces a plan to provide free online education to its workers, in partnership with Arizona State University. It’s a feel-good story, but the move is about more than good publicity.

Walter Russell Mead writes in the WSJ that America can’t expect the world to follow its “optimistic script,” which developed over two centuries of uncommon good fortune.

VA employees who spoke out against fraud in the system through official channels were punished. Dozens of cases of whistleblower intimidation are now under investigation, and several of the whistleblowers are telling their stories to the public.

This is the kind of news we can’t get enough of: U.S. petroleum production hit a 44-year high in April, while oil exports were higher than at any point since 1999.