The process of getting into college grows more expensive, arcane, mysterious and nettlesome by the year for families and students alike. It doesn’t have to be this way.

A new book on Islamic law is long on abstractions but short on assessing actual experience. The result is an exercise in erudite misdirection.

It’s no one thing: Rapid global economic change, institutional deficiencies in governance and plutocratic smarm have reinforced each other to create one huge tangle of a problem.

A new kind of bipolarity is returning to global politics. At one pole stand states invested in a rule-based international order. At the other stand those intent on unconstrained raison d’état. And America is stuck in the middle.

The tendency of America’s highly educated elites to oppose war and assume an adversarial posture against the government turns less on principle than it does on sociology.

The student loan bubble may very well be about to burst, but a college education is itself still more than “worth it”—especially for a democracy.

For more than two decades now, al-Qaeda and other jihadi groups have matched wits and wiles against U.S. intelligence and counter-intelligence efforts. Two new books score the contest.

Recent estimates put the size of India’s underground economy at somewhere between 25 to 50 percent of GDP. This designation covers a wide variety of industries, but the main culprit is land sales. BBC News takes a look at just how bad the situation has become: India’s property sector is possibly the worst offender. Barun Mitra, the founder and director […]

The National Intelligence Council dropped a bombshell in its latest forecast, Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, predicting that America will lose its status as the world’s sole superpower by 2030. Predictably, the mainstream press had read this report as an endorsement of American decline, and headlines have announced it in somber tones as further evidence […]

How bad is California’s public employee compensation problem? If nurses collecting $1 million in overtime pay and highway patrol officers making $500,000 are any indication, “bad” doesn’t cover the half of it. From Bloomberg (the first in a five-part series): In California, Governor Jerry Brown hasn’t curbed overtime expenses that lead the 12 largest states […]