It’s not just in the Middle East where the initiatives of the Obama Administration can be quietly ignored and brushed aside. China, too, is getting in on the latest trend in international relations.

The higher education business should look to earlier episodes of technological tumult to gauge its future.

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki deployed troops and delivered a midnight speech vowing to hold onto power for a third term no matter what. The timing couldn’t be worse for the US strategically or President Obama politically.

Hillary Clinton criticized her former boss on his handling of Syria, Israel, and Iran in an interview this weekend that had both political and policy implications. A must-read.

Hamas’ inability to pay its employees helped drive it toward a losing fight with Israel. With a mysterious donation changing that, could peace be closer at hand?

San Francisco’s new Bay Bridge was late, over-budget, and plagued by union corruption and shoddy design. And yet California’s leaders still want to build a high speed bullet train.

Outgoing DIA chief Michael Flynn warns that the terror threat has metastasized and that the US is less safe now than before 9/11. Is the White House paying attention?

The U.S. Constitution encompasses two different ideas of liberty that operate in tension.

Worries about the pound and the financial system undercut the Scottish drive for independence. Meanwhile, Sir Mick Jagger signs up with the Pope as 200 celebrities call for Scotland to keep the Union Jack.

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