As an increasing number of students fail the bar, law schools are working to replace it with some other exit standard. But it’s far better to keep the bar and change law school than vice versa.

Moscow’s many stated reasons for fighting in Ukraine are either false or incoherent. Its actual goals, unfortunately, preclude a tidy and quick resolution ever taking hold.

German taxpayers are about to find out how expensive it is to decommission a bunch of nuclear plants.

Beijing and Tokyo move closer to setting up a mechanism to prevent crises in the East China Sea.

NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers says defenses alone aren’t enough—we need a stronger means of deterring hackers.

No one is close to catching up to the American shale boom. Here’s why.

Solar-crazed Europe will be darkened by a near-total eclipse tomorrow. How will its energy grid fare?

A new VA hospital is behind schedule and five times over budget—to the tune of $1.73 billion. How’s that for efficient, government-run health care?

Israel’s new parliament will have fewer settlers than the last one did—which may mitigate any cool-down in the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem.

American shale producers are drilling but not yet fracking a growing number of wells. This “fracklog” should worry the world’s petrostates.