Thanks to the shale boom, more and more companies are choosing to fill up their trucks on propane and compressed natural gas.

The conventional wisdom in many quarters is that to improve our education system, we simply need to boost education spending. But we’ve already tried that, and there is very little sign that it has done much good.

Oil prices are plunging once again, erasing brief gains made this spring.

The Thai foreign minister got perhaps a bit too enthusiastic in describing how close Beijing and Bangkok have grown.

The IMF is reluctant for the moment to raise China’s currency to the status of the dollar, euro, pound, and yen.

Can Europe’s leaders muster up enough nerve not to fight economic modernization?

Chinese President Xi has found in Confucianism (as he understands it) an ideology useful to the construction of a Chinese model of modernity—which is intended to contribute to the task of empire-building.

A piece of good news for the people of Egypt—and for the region—in turbulent times

Moscow submitted a new claim to some 463,000 square miles of the Arctic this week.

We should remember Robert Conquest for his brilliance, and for his unflinching pursuit of truth despite the opposition he encountered.