China will start taxing citizens’ foreign income, tightening the noose on elites who still hold out the hope of avoiding Xi’s purge.

In commemoration of those who were murdered yesterday at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, here is Edith Piaf’s La Marseillaise.

China is making a play in Latin America, helping underwrite the economies of two oil-rich, leftist countries suffering under the reality of plunging global oil prices.

Japan is trying to sell submarine-hunting jets to the UK. But the overall play is bigger than that.

A group of American-Jewish leftists is imitating the BDS movement in an attempt to put a right-wing Israeli position beyond the pale. It’s inexcusable—and dangerous to civil society.

Renewable energy production outstripped other sources in Germany last year. This is not necessarily something to celebrate.

Italy maintains a tenuous political peace, but an impending presidential election threatens to upset the careful negotiations that gave Prime Minister Matteo Renzi the narrowing latitude for political reform that he holds today.

California is breaking ground on its new high speed rail project, but it’s as terrible an idea as ever.

The term “new atheism” gained currency in the early 2000s and is still much discussed. But is it anything but new—and is still a rather childish reflex.

Ukraine’s economy is hurting badly, and that kind of news can make Putin’s day.