The refugee crisis caused by the war in Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster. And on top of that, it bodes ill for Ukraine’s state-building prospects.

A new set of Chinese policies in TIbet are aimed at promoting intermarriage between Tibetans and Han Chinese. It’s all part of China’s strategy for dealing with minorities, which aims to defuse ethnic tensions by using both carrots and sticks to erode the distinctions between cultures.

With the writing on the wall for the moderate rebels in Syria, we may be seeing the beginnings of the next stage in the conflict.

After beating back ISIS at the border town of Arsal, Lebanon is preparing for what could be a long war. The U.S. has agreed to pitch in by arming the Lebanese forces, while the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon has drawn a “red line” in front of ISIS.

Even as something as routine as a blood test is subject to massive price fluctuations from hospital to hospital for no apparent reason. We still don’t understand how pricing works in our health care system.

Protests targeting an Israeli theater company in Scotland are the latest examples of the increasingly uncomfortable position of Jews across Europe.

To decrease its reliance on sooty coal, China is consuming and importing vast quantities of natural gas at an increasing pace.

In the latest sign of European anti-Semitism, Gaza protests pressured a British supermarket to pull Kosher foods from its shelves.

Rock journalist and musician Bob Stanley attempts a full-throated defense of “poptimism” and an encyclopedic account of the American music industry’s rise and fall. Both miss the mark.

The rescuers of the Yazidis weren’t just any Kurds—they were PKK, and their presence is making an impact on the conflict in northern Iraq.