Governor Andrew Cuomo has the upper hand in the conflict with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio over charter schools. The new state budget will force all cities, including New York, to provide rent-free space to charter schools.

Japan seeks to reboot its defense industry by permitting it to export, as tensions escalate in East Asia.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble accused Putin of emulating Hitler’s tactics in the Crimea. He has a point. Putin is no Hitler, but he’s using the same playbook.

Kashagan is the world’s largest and most expensive single oil project, and it’s also a complete disaster. Nearly a decade past schedule and $30 billion over budget, the Kazakh field has yet to start yielding the 35 billion barrels of oil it is estimated to contain.

Winter is coming for higher ed. So why aren’t college administrators feeling a chill?

Governor Chris Christie’s budget cuts include reductions to the state’s contribution to New Jersey’s pension plan. This isn’t fiscal prudence; it’s actuarial folly.

Senator Tom Harkin calls for caps on grad student borrowing after an explosion in student debt. Bipartisan support for rethinking student aid policy is growing.

Erdogan’s AK Party won decisively in Turkey’s elections on Sunday despite increasing unrest over the past few years. If his victory speech is any indication, reconciliation is not on the horizon.

After the President’s talk with Saudi Arabia, the Obama Administration may be about to offer the Syrian rebels serious military assistance:shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles.

The IPCC’s latest report offers dire warnings about the dangers of climate change—too dire, evidently, for one researcher, who has pulled his name from the report’s summary. His punishment: relegation to climate science’s “fringe.”