Hundreds of millions in tax increases over the next several years to fix dozens of billions in unfunded pension liabilities. And no one is sure it will even work. This is the bed Chicago made, and that Rahm Emmanuel has to sleep in.

Discretion may be the better part of valor for defenders of democracy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed off on some important reforms to her country’s broken green energy policies today. Germany still faces a longer-term renewables problem, but watering down the energiewende is a step in the right direction.

China and the U.S. each need the other to remain economically vibrant, and both will benefit from a U.S.-led global order.

Japan is worried by America’s “strategic ambiguity” and uncertain about its own future.

Obama should be thinking of his place in history as he ponders what to do about Ukraine.

Burma’s persecuted Rohingya minority is in desperate need of basic supplies like water and medicine, and angry Buddhist mobs have driven away the humanitarian aid groups who want to help.

The President takes the long view, and his caution in the global arena is no mistake.

The Obama Administration’s foreign policy has been one long parade of errors.

The leader of the world’s only superpower just “wants to be alone.” Part of the symposium: “America Self-Contained?“