The IEA expects low crude prices to last through 2016. That could spell trouble for petrostates facing budget shortfalls.

Movie star Benedict Cumberbatch takes on Shakespeare’s most famous character, plus hordes of screaming fans. More power to him—and them.

Two weeks after signing an assisted suicide bill, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have given terminally ill patients access to experimental drugs that could save their lives.

What is the point of making strategic recommendations to someone who has not the slightest interest in hearing them?

Chinese imports are down. The longer China stumbles, the more instability we can expect worldwide.

One of the great risks of the current Russian-Iranian advance in the Middle East is that it will make Sunni radical groups look more acceptable to their coreligionists.

CalPERS and CalSTRS, the two biggest pension funds in the U.S., are being forced to divest from any company whose primary profits are related to the mining or use of coal. That’s likely to hurt their already battered bottom line.

There is a long history of celebrating the European discovery of the Americas, both inside and outside of the United States.

President Obama’s failure to stabilize Afghanistan gives a nice boost to the America-as-diminished-world-power narrative.

The UN’s climate chief hints that Paris won’t produce a binding treaty.