Berlin is finally preparing to embrace the shale revolution. This move won’t just boost Germany’s energy security; it will also make the country’s energy mix greener.

In just a year public disapproval of Brazil’s government and of President Dilma Rousseff’s performance has skyrocketed. The Latin American socialist left just can’t catch a break.

President Obama’s former Ambassador to Syria says he resigned because the Administration’s policy was weak, incoherent, and was increasing the threat of terrorism.

Big Data applications are all the rage in health care right now, but centralized databases have limitations. We need to empower consumers, not give medi-wonks more excuses to exercise even more centralized control of the national health care bureaucracy.

Much like baking soda and vinegar, volcanoes and nuclear energy don’t happily mix. Japanese regulators are examining the threat the island nation’s 110 active volcanoes pose to its reactors as it gears up for a nuclear restart.

Modi seems intent on putting a more muscular India in the middle of the Game of Thrones in East Asia. He’s already deepening Delhi’s relationship with China’s rivals: Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and others.

France is moving ahead with selling two major warships to the Russian navy, despite pleas from NATO allies. The deal exemplifies the biggest impediment to U.S. efforts to stop Putin: the lack of European solidarity.

Licensing requirements have exploded in the past forty years, as professional guilds seek higher salaries at everyone else’s expense We need to make it easier for young people to enter professions.

The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after five years of captivity by the Taliban might seem like a straightforward win for the Obama Administration. But the story is more complicated, and a flat-footed White House is now feeling the blowback.

Google plans to spend $1 to $3 billion on a fleet of low-orbiting satellites that will provide internet to remote areas and third world countries. Is this the future of communications?