The public wants the U.S. to scale back its global presence, according to a new poll. After fifteen years of dismal foreign policy under presidents of both parties, it’s no wonder.

After nearly two weeks, hopes of saving the hundreds of girls kidnapped in Nigeria are fading. The Nigerian government has mishandled the rescue attempt from the beginning.

The film Heaven Is For Real has done very well at the box office, in part by tapping into lax modern attitudes about salvation. Some critics are troubled by its message.

The Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin hasn’t pledged to restore key parts of Scott Walker’s efforts to rein in public sector unions.

Libya is still struggling, to put it mildly, in the aftermath of regime change. Militants storm the country’s parliament with alarming regularity, while jihadists help themselves to the military bases American forces left behind.

Outbox promised to save the post office money and improve our mail delivery system, but the USPS quashed it. Incumbents threaten to derail the information revolution.

A fog of uncertainty has descended on Ukraine and Eastern Europe, but there are still a few things that we do know (as well as a few things that we know we don’t know).

A charter school leader who promotes school reform is facing off against California’s sitting Superintendent of Public Instruction. Both are Democrats, of course. Is this a sign that the bluest of states may soon break with the teachers’ unions?

One leading climate scientist was so frustrated by the political mangling of the underlying science in a recent IPCC report that he published a letter decrying what he believes may be an “inescapable conflict between scientific integrity and political credibility.” This is why the Global Climate Treaty movement is dead in the water.

As it watches the West respond to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, China is keeping its own entanglements with its neighbors in mind.