Boko Haram razed the Nigerian town of Baga, killing up to 2,000 civilians by some estimates. The Islamists now control nearly a whole state in Nigeria’s north.

No one wants a bank panic. But if one starts to seem inevitable, isn’t it better to panic early?

Many of these oil sands projects will be going forward, Keystone or not, low prices or not, simply because so much money has already been invested. Keystone isn’t exactly a necessary piece of infrastructure—hence why oil sands emissions can’t be pinned on it—but it is the option that makes the most sense.

Most newly minted English PhDs don’t wind up at the sort of jobs they’re trained for, if they get an academic job at all. Think academia will change its ways? Think again.

Qatar may have dialed back its support for Islamist movements, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be best friends again with Egypt and the Gulf states.

Today is the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, in which a most American combination of a future President, a pirate, and freed slaves beat the world’s best army.

Most Americans don’t realize how unprepared they are for end-of-life care. Their misplaced optimism will make the coming eldercare crisis worse.

George Soros has a plan to protect Ukraine’s economy from a perfect storm of threats.

A new process for creating antibiotics has been discovered, defusing the defeatism about rising resistance.

Both China and Japan are looking to capitalize on the plunging price of crude.