Ukrainians aren’t exactly jumping at the chance to go join the fight against the insurgents in the east, and the government is clearly struggling to fill the ranks.

Last year President Obama told the UN that the U.S. and its allies would “dismantle” and “destroy” ISIS. Now he says ISIS will destroy itself…“ultimately.”

Private firms are having an easier time adjusting to plunging crude prices than petrostates are.

After a lull, China is once again ramming neighbors’ ships in the South China Sea.

Because of his 2012 recall election, Walker has a deeper donor base than others in his position would. Yet another reason he could do very well in 2016.

Syriza is proving to be incapable of serious, effective negotiations.

In the latest demonstration that anybody with important information stored online (that’s you) is losing out, hackers stole 80 million private records from the second largest health insurer in America.

Jordan’s King Abdallah trained as a Special Operations soldier as a young man. That may give you some insight into what kind of response ISIS should expect from Jordan in the wake of the immolation of its pilot.

And with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande flying off to Moscow to try to negotiate a deal with Vladimir Putin, an ever-more desperate Ukraine is looking at a bleak future.

Ten months out and already top officials are trying to tamp down expectations for this year’s climate summit in Paris.