The European dream cannot be preserved without the determination to defend it.

We haven’t found the floor of the global crude market yet, and the world’s petrostates are sweating bullets.

The French President is one of many European politicians who feel that the sanctions may have had their day.

Under Xi, China is moving to the left, and Maoists are thrilling at the development. This is no accident: Xi is rolling out a very clever plan for China’s future, and his own.

A look around the Caucasus shows that the various constituent countries have drawn vastly different lessons from the crisis in Ukraine.

Harvard professors are protesting new university rules requiring them to pay for more of their own health care, and their anger is a sign of damage to come.

The White House just announced that the President will veto any Keystone bill that comes across his desk.

Prognostication is always a mug’s game, and nowhere more so than in the Middle East. Nevertheless, it’s a fun game to play, especially when the subject is a region so poorly understood by the U.S. mainstream media that it frequently gets blindsided by events.

But danger lies ahead for Israel with a changing of the guard at the Security Council.

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