College presidents are difficult to hire but all too easy to send packing. How can we make the college presidency a force for good?

Michigan’s Kalamazoo College is publicizing student test data to show what student’s learned during their stay in a bid to increase enrollment. It’s a great idea, but why stop there?

For-profit American colleges are making their money by preying on disadvantaged and mentally ill students.

Is Denmark sticking up for animal rights or allowing discrimination against religious minorities slip in through the back door? The government claims that a ban on the slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat simply prioritizes animal rights, but Jews and Muslims view it as a crude instance of interference in religious freedom.

As China continues to build up its navy, it is essential that Beijing and Washington continue to develop good military to military lines of communication to prevent accidents.

Russia’s economy is tanking as capital flees the country and the ruble crumbles. Unfortunately for Putin, he can’t count on Western fecklessness to bail him out of this mess.

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has become the first Democratic Senator to publicly come out in favor of repeal. It’s official: The survival of Obamacare is no longer just a Republican fantasy.

Washington’s inability to move on the TPP, immigration, and the Keystone pipeline took the air out of Wednesday’s “Three Amigos” summit in Mexico. Obama’s troubles at home are beginning to hurt his international agenda.

The cost of manufacturing solar panels has dropped in recent years—largely thanks to generous government support by states attempting to move first in the fledgling market—yet efficiencies have largely stagnated. That’s a significant problem for the future of the renewable energy source.

The worsening violence in Ukraine is raising fears that a debt default contagion will spread to other fragile economies. Given the herd psychology and trigger-happy nature of financial markets, a meltdown in Ukraine could lead investors to flee other worrisome emerging markets. Thailand, Brazil, and Turkey, for example, are especially at risk.