Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull surprised his political opponents by suggesting he might call for snap elections.

Undemocratic states are kicking their influence-peddling machines into high gear.

China needs the talents and the idealism of its growing Christian minority.

Prominent green leader Bill McKibben took some dubious shots at fracking this week.

Biofuel producers are sinking as their government subsidies are being cut—hardly the sign of a healthy industry.

The highest court in Illinois has ruled unconstitutional the City of Chicago’s last-ditch efforts to stabilize its woefully underfunded pension system.

The NRA has spun a story of the Second Amendment’s origins that has nothing to do with its real ones.

Education, electricity, and housing costs have risen substantially over the past two years.

Connecticut Democrats are going after Yale, for the same reason Henry VIII went after the monks and Willie Sutton went after the banks.

The Russian President has a plan in the Middle East. Next step: raise the price of oil.