Even a scholar picked by Japan’s ruling LDP party thinks the party’s collective self-defense bill is unconstitutional.

Addiction to mediated images is imbecilizing America’s youth. The energy-cost functions of our still-Stone Age brain explain both how and why.

The Kremlin is sending a message to the West’s Russia experts: if you want to talk to us, you need to toe the line.

Burma is newly enmeshed in Asia’s Game of Thrones, a development far more important than the topics Western media typically choose to focus on.

Japan, notably, is concerned about the precedents Putin’s moves against Ukrainian territorial integrity are setting.

A bearish crude market is wreaking havoc on governments whose budgets rely on oil revenues.

Chicago’s city government is literally trying to build a casino to provide the income stream necessary to meet its pension obligations down the road.

The Obama Administration is considering increasing the overtime threshold to more than double the current cutoff. While politicians should be working toward raising Americans’ wages, doing it by decree is counterproductive.

Russia is looking to pull Macedonia away from the West as its leaders’ corruption is supposedly exposed by an opposition whistleblower. Will Putinism be able to win the day in southeastern Europe?

The Vaca Muerta shale play could remake Argentina’s energy landscape. And Argentina’s political class may finally be ready to fully take advantage of it.