Student protests that began two weeks ago got more serious today when opposition leaders joined a massive march through Caracas. Scores of people have been detained by police, three people were killed, a number of police vehicles burned, and some government offices were vandalized during the protests.

It’s not just German households and businesses struggling under the yoke of the country’s ill-conceived green energy scheme. The ripples from Berlin’s energiewende are extended in to Austria, where excess renewable energy is straining the German neighbor’s grid.

Researchers at California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) made huge progress in the quest for energy’s holy grail in the journal Nature yesterday, revealing that a fusion reaction produced more energy than it required last fall. Take that, Malthus.

A college degree is worth more now than ever before, while a high school degree alone is worth much less. We need to make college education more affordable to better prepare students for the workforce.

Barack Obama was supposed to be the President who mended ties and restored America’s image around the world. Instead, the world is rallying against U.S. leadership on many important issues. Internet governance is only the latest sample of the consequences of the President’s bad management.

Pakistan’s new army chief, arguably the most powerful man in the country, recently wrapped up his first foreign visit to none other than Saudi Arabia. Now that the possibility of an Iran-United States rapprochement has increased, the Gulf Arabs are looking to Pakistan as a possible counterweight.

ACA supporters can bask in some good news for the troubled health care law for a change. But do the numbers hold up?

Alaskan state legislators have just over a month to keep the ball rolling on a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) project that would help bring America’s glut of natural gas to Asian markets.

Egypt’s economic outlook got a boost from Fitch, which upgraded its forecast from “negative” to “stable” for the first time since the 2011 revolution. But the big question of the moment is whether military chief (and future president?) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his military colleagues can effectively keep the security situation from spiraling out of control.

China’s increased influence in Sri Lanka is bad news for India, which has grown estranged from its neighbor to the south. As India’s favor in Sri Lanka fades, China’s rises. That’s big news for the Asia’s grand geopolitical games.