Shinzo Abe’s visit to the Yasukuni Shrine and China’s seizure of a Japanese ship over a 1930s-era debt have heated up the region in advance of President Obama’s visit.

A map allegedly recovered from the Ukrainians Communist Party’s central offices shows Ukraine carved up into a collection of autonomous republics. Is this what Putin has in mind by “federalization”?

Happy Easter to all of our readers who are celebrating today. Here are a few of our most popular essays, short and long, you might have missed this past week.

The concept of investing directly in students’ education in return for a percentage of their future earnings has been kicking around for a while now. One Chicago startup is putting it to the test.

The very structural characteristics that launched the economic successes of Brazil, Russia, India, and China are now holding them back.

Americans get charged a lot more than other countries for the same kind of treatment. But there are some obvious solutions already available to us.

Four basic principles defined the Founders’ foreign policy. We need to re-learn them.

The old foreign policy “schools” debate is exhausted. We need a new synthesis.

The Obama Administration represents the dawn of a new and superior conception of American foreign policy.

Lila Abu-Lughod claims that the supposedly oppressed women of the Muslim world don’t need the help of the enlightened West. Turns out, she’s right.