California’s high taxes and onerous regulations are driving more and more film productions out of the state. Not even Hollywood can stand doing business in California.

Multinationals are now paying a premium to employees willing to be stationed in smoggy Chinese megacities. The bill for China’s rapid, unrestrained growth is already coming due.

A new Brookings institution study attacks defined-benefit public pension programs for systematically paying women less than men. We can fix this problem and make pensions more sustainable for everyone by switching to defined-contribution plans.

Pakistan’s rupee has risen sharply despite the moribund state of its economy. According to the Finance Minister, this currency windfall is thanks to a large payment from a secret “friendly Muslim country.” Anyone care to guess which country?

Japan’s Shinzo Abe is working to revise rules on exporting military equipment as part of his program of militarization. But not everyone in Japan is on board.

The grocery store chain Tesco has begun tracking virtually every move of its employees with mandatory high-tech armbands. Your employer may be next.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being squeezed from both sides, with both supporters and opponents pursuing lawsuits to challenge his policies.

India’s stock market has been going gangbusters over the past few weeks. Why? It’s the Modi factor.

It’s usually failed peace talks (or failed boycotts) that put Israel in the news, but some attention-grabbing domestic reforms are sweeping the Jewish state this week, with enormous consequences for the country’s Arab and ultra-orthodox minorities. Understanding the dizzying array of domestic forces in this tiny country of eight million people is important not just for US officials, but for many millions of American voters.

Natural gas is booming in America, but a new EPA report says methane leaks have dropped over 40 percent. In fact, our nation’s cattle now pose a more serious climate change threat than shale gas.