A Japanese government-appointed council of experts will review the country’s landmark apology to “comfort women”—those whom the Imperial army forced into sex slavery during World War II. This will definitely go well.

Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has backed the government’s attempts to persecute the Rohingya minority and ban inter-faith marriages.

Splitting California into six states doesn’t stand a chance in the state legislature or Congress, but venture capitalist Tim Draper’s effort to put the question before voters isn’t as farcical as it may seem.

Detroit’s new bankruptcy proposal is much more favorable to pensioners than bondholders, but it is still drawing fire from both sides. Will the city’s divide-and-conquer strategy work?

A grassroots national movement to bring price transparency to health care is gaining momentum. This is the kind of thing we should look out for if we want to find reforms that can bend the cost curve.

Hezbollah, in conjunction with the Syrian Army, just claimed a major victory in an ambush of Syrian rebel forces. Is the Iranian-backed Islamist group winning Assad’s war for him?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is on the brink of failure in both Japan and the United States. Can PM Abe and President Obama win over the naysayers, some of whom come from their own parties?

Big Pharma is growing more risk averse and lazy over time, but smaller companies are stepping in to experiment with bold new medical technologies.

It isn’t clear how long the uncertainty over Ukraine’s new course will last. But the challenges that the country is facing are more obvious. Here are a few of the major ones.

A new recording purports to show Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan telling his son to hide millions of dollars stashed in his house. A host of conspiracy theories and scandals is now circling the PM, who is responding with wild theories of his own.