Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam will be a jewel in the crown of a country whose fortunes are finally improving. But Ethiopia has much more to do if it is to meet its goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2025.

Cutting off natural gas supplies would hurt Russia as well as Europe, but a potential deal with Beijing could give Moscow even more leverage in its standoff with the West.

Since the end of the Cold War, many Americans have operated under the assumptions that old-fashioned geopolitics were a thing of the past. But now they are back, with a vengance.

A new report finds that the United States is woefully underprepared for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. We’re playing catch-up in a region with both commercial and strategic interests.

Americans still rank student loans as their greatest financial problem well into their forties.

Recent piracy in the Strait of Malacca is a reminder of the fragility of some of the world’s most important energy trading routes. American hydrocarbon exports would be largely unconstrained by such vulnerabilities, and would bolster international energy security.

The stress of fast-paced, polluted urban life in China has pushed waves of the country’s middle class to pick up and move abroad. The country’s growth-at-all-costs policy risks producing something of a brain drain.

VA residents have shifted from majority support for the Medicaid expansion to majority opposition. This swing spells trouble for the ACA.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned Russia in no uncertain terms over the Ukraine crisis. By doing so, she is moving away from Germany’s longtime policy of non-interference with the former Soviet bloc.

As if 3D printers don’t have enough wow factor, imagine them in the service of humanitarian causes. A team of innovators in Los Angeles, for instance, uses them to make prosthetic limbs for African children.