Calls for further votes illustrate an untenable policy split.

Putin recognizes that Europe is economically and politically split, and he is trying to exploit that to break up the EU sanctions regime against Russia.

Beijing seems almost as ready as Moscow to sign a massive new gas deal this year.

Today marks the anniversary of the United States’ firebombing of Tokyo in World War 2, which killed 105,400 civilians in a single night. It is important to reflect on what war is, and why it is worth working hard to prevent it.

Put not your faith in Presidents—unless you get a Congressional say-so.

Citizens of Putin’s Russia are more anti-American than Russians were in Soviet days.

China’s big policy shift of 2014 is turning out to be more rhetorical than real, at least in the South China Sea.

Turkey’s push for peace with the Kurds is laudable, but politics and bad timing may doom the whole effort to collapse.

A new seeks to offer an education that is more rigorous and cheaper than an Ivy League degree—but equally prestigious. The key to this model is its “campus” without classrooms.

McDonalds plans to stop selling chicken raised on medically important antibiotics. This is a huge step forward towards averting or lessening a predicted antibiotic crisis.