Argentina’s cow prices are soaring. Greens may applaud the shrinking size of the Argentinian cattle herd, but this is no win for the country’s flailing economy.

Foul play is looking more and more likely in the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet. While it’s still too early to say for sure what happened, it’s a timely reminder that high-tech destructive terrorism is not a thing of the past.

As all sides try to end the Syrian conflict on their terms, Iran’s proxies are recruiting fighters from Iraq and sending them to Syria.

Japan has a stunning stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium stashed around the country. This worries China, and inspires jealousy in South Korea. US leadership is needed lest East Asia turn into the scene of a nuclear arms race.

By selling off empty buildings and land, the US government could raise hundreds of billions of dollars. What’s keeping us?

On March 18, Professor Walter Russell Mead will be speaking on “The Big Five: America’s Make or Break Challenges” at the the Tikvah Fund in New York City as part of its Winter Speaker Series.

“Hundreds” of motorcycle-riding, gun-toting Boko Haram fighters launched a brazen daytime attack on Maiduguri, one of northern Nigeria’s biggest cities today.

This week, President Obama admitted Americans will have to switch doctors under the ACA, while HHS Secretary Sebelius said premiums would go up in 2015. Nevertheless the ACA is becoming entrenched law.

Though he perhaps hasn’t yet made up his mind on how to proceed, Vladimir Putin appears to be lining up options for his next move in Ukraine.

Wall Street’s back-office exodus from New York could spell trouble for Mayor De Blasio’s agenda.