Last week the MERS virus turned up in South Asia; now it’s in Greece. Airports are a country’s weak points: One infected traveler can infect people in a nation thousands of miles away.

Support for the Keystone pipeline is at an all-time high. Greens are failing to convince the public of the project’s faults, largely because the facts don’t support their case.

Obama Administration policy on North Korea appears to be based on faulty ideas about what the Kim regime is willing to suffer to keep its nuclear weapons.

Without the UK, Scotland would face huge pension liabilities. Things would not be as rosy for an independent Scotland as the SNP would have its fellow countrymen believe.

A formidable obstacle looms in Narendra Modi’s way on the road to the prime ministership, and her name is Jayalalitha. She can be an indispensable ally, or the cause of countless headaches.

More than 140 people have died of the virus so far in Africa, though the outbreak does not appear to have spread beyond Guinea and Liberia. While that’s mildly encouraging, in the age of globalization, a deadly virus can be only one airplane ride away from anyone on earth.

Higher education is evolving slowly but surely, and one small school is giving its adult students credit for the skills they already have.

As tensions in Pakistan remain high due to Musharraf’s on-going trial, the country’s biggest TV station accused the intelligence agency of attacking a famous journalist. In response, the Defense Ministry demanded the channel be shut down.

The Russian gas company Gazprom just announced a massive additional $11.4 billion charge for Ukraine. The charge comes under the controversial “take-or-pay” contract clause, and will put further strain on a state already struggling to stay afloat.

The ACA’s recent PR victories may not have cheered Democratic voters up as much as they did the law’s supporters in the media. Could the Democratic base’s ongoing distaste for the law cost three Senators their re-elections?