Community colleges in Michigan are venturing into forbidden territory: outsourcing the hiring of non-tenure professors. While faculty critics condemn the move as one that will undermine educational goals, this is a trend that might take off.

The United States is pulling embassy staff out of Tripoli, and has issued a travel advisory that nicely outlines what a nightmare Libya has become. If Obama were a Republican, the press coverage of this stinking corpse of a policy flub would be quite different.

A Pentecostal church in Brazil has built a gigantic replica of Solomon’s Temple. The new building is the most visible sign of the growing power and influence of pro-Jewish Christian bodies in the country.

Can you be simultaneously inside and outside the liberal international order? It looks increasingly like the BRICS are going to try.

Just after showing support for Israel in its own Parliament, India has joined a resolution against Israel at the UN. This move will help India appease Muslims at home and Israel critics abroad without damaging its own relationship with the country.

The MH17 tragedy is the latest sign among many that the Putin regime views individual human lives as expendable. It is up to the West to make clear to Russia that such actions will exclude it from the civilized world.

A man infected by the Ebola virus flew to Lagos, capital of Nigeria, where he has since died. The epidemic shows no signs of slowing, and it is proving extremely difficult to control.

Some are reporting that “Tier 3” sanctions are increasingly likely next week from Europe, and markets appear to have taken note. Has Europe finally realized that Putin has no use for its off-ramps?

Chinese President Xi’s anti-corruption campaign is both means to consolidate power and an effort to save the system by changing it. It’s also a sign that Xi is preparing for an oncoming storm.

A video showing a Hindu politician force-feeding a Muslim during Ramadan is rocking India’s media. India is a big country with huge tasks before it, and not everything that happens is going to please foreign (or Indian, for that matter) human rights groups and NGOs. The question will be whether the BJP and its allies can run the government without being sidetracked by communal politics and rivalries.