China’s seven pilot carbon markets are defying green hopes and struggling to get off the ground.

The naval drills will be a strong (and provocative) sign to Beijing, which must be watching the coalitions of opponents warily.

President Obama hosted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the White House yesterday, but the way for the U.S. to improve relations with Brazil isn’t to make empty comments at a substance-free summits.

As China tries to steer its economy to a new system based on domestic demand, the challenges ahead will add to the pressure to consolidate power and control.

Francis’ prescriptions on the environment are fanciful at best, and represent the latest Vatican lurch to the Left.

Gazprom supplies to Ukraine were shut off today as the two sides failed to reach a new natural gas agreement.

In the wake of protests against Uber by French cabbies, another sign of France’s turbulent adjustment to the sharing economy.

This morning President Obama is expected to announce the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and his supporters will no doubt hail this as a great success. It’s certainly a good thing, but it’s not a big thing.

At just the moment when our economy desperately needs a wave of innovation and small-scale entrepreneurialism, the Left has decided to do everything in its power to make the American system as inflexible and corporatist as possible.

Germany’s energy transition has a remarkable ability to consistently fail in its objectives.