After years of calling for peace talks with the Taliban, Pakistan’s Imran Khan is turning down an offer to lead the negotiations. Is Khan trying to distance himself from talks that could be doomed to failure?

Louisiana has gone all-in on education reform, and reformers have a big stake in its success. Unfortunately, 77 percent of fourth graders are reading below grade level, one of the worst rates in the nation. It’s an inauspicious beginning.

Some tension between the executive and legislative branches is normal, but recent divisions look deeper than normal and possibly more consequential. The force really pulling Democrats in different directions isn’t trade or even green issues. It’s the dog that doesn’t bark, the issue that isn’t there to unite Democrats.

At the Munich Security Conference, German President Joachim Gauck implored his fellow countrymen to embrace greater responsibility in global conflicts. It may be a hard sell. A recent poll suggested 61% of Germans oppose expanding their country’s military involvement abroad.

Research suggests that telework can not only save companies money and cut out workers’ commutes, but it can also raise productivity. Bottom line: telework is good for the bottom line.

Coding bootcamps, which offer people a short crash-course in programming with an eye toward the workforce, have become popular in Silicon Valley. State regulators, however, are threatening to shut them down if they don’t comply with new regulations.

A reason to second-guess declinism about manufacturing woes driving inequality: America’s energy and auto industries are leading the way in working-class employment growth.

The long-awaited State Department report on Keystone XL was released last Friday, and it confirmed what common sense already told us: Building this pipeline won’t significantly affect emissions. What that means for the feckless green movement depends on how it interprets defeat.

California Governor Jerry Brown’s beloved bullet train project has had a rough go of it lately. As public support for it has plummeted, he has inadvertently antagonized the environmentalists in his base while it gets tossed around by the courts. A pending appellate court review on Brown’s access to $8.6 billion in bond money will decide the next chapter in the bullet train saga, which stands today about where it did two years ago: without a credible source of funding or a good justification for why it’s necessary.

President Obama hopes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will be a signal to the entire Asia-Pacific region that the United States is committed to the region, not just militarily but economically. But Harry Reid and other Senate Dems aren’t too keen on it.