Gazprom made its first move towards natural gas spot pricing this week, a move most welcome in Brussels.

Blue states taking modest steps toward making retirement benefits portable. Red states need to think of alternative models; helping moderate and low-income people prepare for a secure retirement shouldn’t be a partisan concern.

The oil price plunge is hurting green energy and exposing the folly of expensive subsidy regimes.

Some may have worldly motives, some spiritual. Either way, it points to a crisis in Islamic civilization.

The story of Timothy Hunt is a story about the convergence of some of the most destructive trends in modern Western intellectual culture.

An annulment system that gives answers faster and imposes fewer costs on those going to Church courts is a good thing. But if the process needs to become simpler, then marriage should be harder to get into.

The details of ISIS’s sexual enslavement of Yazidi girls are hard to come by, as a fascinating Daily Beast article on a Canadian rescue operation makes clear. But like the NYT before it, the article contains an oversight.

France is trying to woo back entrepreneurs it has lost to Israel. It would be smarter to correct the conditions that drove them away in the first place.

While not totally fictitious, the so-called “infrastructure deficit” is one of the country’s problems that’s not as bad as advertised.

The world’s worst-led social movement continues to flounder and flail.