For the fifth year running, national health-care spending has grown at historically low rates. But for many Americans, health care is only getting less affordable.

While Detroit is not out of the woods yet, its experience points to the fact that troubled cities’ most needed structural reforms may only be possible under extraordinary circumstances.

Xi Jinping is having trouble, both in his anti-corruption purge and his quest to increase China’s power in the “peripheries.”

In a failing state, the terrorist group finds a new home.

A challenge to Rhode Island’s 2011 pension reform is winding its way through the courts—and if there’s no settlement soon, it will be tried by jury.

India is beefing up its submarine fleet to make sure it can counter growing Chinese military power in the vital Indian Ocean region. That bodes well for a regional balance of power in the future.

In case you missed it on Monday evening, our podcast this week featured two previews of the essays from our upcoming issue of the print magazine—one on the background of the Mistral deal, and one on Putin’s motivations in Ukraine.

Baghdad and Erbil have buried the hatchet over a long-running oil revenue dispute.

Iran, not the Islamic State, is at the core of our strategic problem set. Understanding that is key to understanding some of the big stories to come out of the Middle East in recent days.

New well permits fell almost 40 percent from October to November as shale producers adjusted course to account for plunging oil prices.