A poll released today in India puts Narendra Modi well in the lead for this year’s national elections, and found that the ruling Congress party could be heading for a “meltdown.”

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has announced a plan to revitalize Detroit by offering visas to 50,000 highly skilled immigrants to live in the city. There’s no guarantee it will work, but it could be just what the city needs.

The day of reckoning seems to be dawning on the latest iteration of Peronist failure in Argentina. The government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s serial refusal to bow to market realities put the country’s Central Bank in an impossible position, forcing it to pull the plug on support for the peso. This could be more than just another currency crisis. The foundations of Kirchnerismo could be beginning to crack.

Pakistani Taliban have begun targeting workers distributing polio vaccines, killing 4 in attacks over the weekend. Polio cases are on the rise, and the disease has begun to spread to Syria.

Though I had long known of Robbie Risner, fighter pilot extraordinaire, Korean War ace, first living recipient of the Air Force Cross recently featured on the cover of Time magazine, I did not actually know him. But when I heard his whispered voice under a rusty steel door in a prison cellblock called “Heartbreak Hotel,” […]

Serbia is set to build a monument to Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, atop its fortress of Kalemagdan in Belgrade. Shunting blame for World War I is all the rage these days.

The salaries of specialist doctors are skyrocketing—and those costs are being passed on to consumers. This is why reform efforts like Obamacare, which rely on subsidies more than on efforts to rein in costs, are just propping up a deeply unsustainable status quo.

Buddhist extremists are once again slaughtering Muslims in Burma’s Rahkine province. Somehow this hasn’t dampened western excitement over the country’s “democratic transformation.”

A new piece by the ever outspoken Bill McKibben, co-written with Mike Tidwell, encapsulates the shortcomings of the modern green movement. It has everything you might expect from a piece co-written by one of the leaders of the environmental movement: lurid imagery, emotionally charged NIMBY-ism, mangled science, and a detachment from the considerations that ultimately go into energy decision-making.

Critics of liberal arts education argue that it risks trapping students in low-paying, dead-end careers. But according to a new study, they’re wrong. Although they may start slow, liberal arts majors eventually earn more than their peers with pre-professional or professional degrees. Unfortunately, this isn’t true of humanities majors who only have a liberal arts bachelor’s degree.