The Kremlin reacted very differently when Russia’s own airliner was brought down by a terror attack last year. Here’s why.

The high-speed rail increasingly looks like a last-ditch effort to project 20th-century ideas about transportation into the future.

Ahead of President Obama’s trip to east Asia this weekend, things are heating up in the South China Sea.

The 1999 Russian apartment bombings were the greatest political provocation since the burning of the Reichstag.

The real reason teachers aren’t getting a raise.

The EU wants to ignore Germany’s concerns over nuclear power and start funding the research and development of new nuclear technologies.

China’s only friend? Maybe not so much…

Injunction against Jan Boehmermann lists the acceptable and unacceptable lines.

A group of judges and legal scholars resoundingly repudiated the illiberal Yes Means Yes standard for sexual consent.

Collapsing oil prices have left only the most productive tight oil rigs in operation.