Genetically modified crops could feed millions of hungry Africans and bolster the continent’s shaky food security, but Luddite anti-GMO campaigners have so successfully smeared the technology that no African government has approved its use.

EU leaders are set to meet on Tuesday to discuss further sanctions on Russia, and Putin’s billionaires appear to be scared. But will the Europeans follow through?

U.S. drone strikes have begun again in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas after a six-month hiatus.

Pakistan’s ongoing campaign against the Taliban isn’t going as well as its media would have you think. Meanwhile, Sunni extremism is laying down roots in the country’s religiously diverse Southern province.

How our cultural fixation on the welfare of the middle class blinds us to a deeper view of human freedom and flourishing.

Modern agriculture is focused on growing more with less, but the monoculture approach that entails also leeches necessary nutrients out of soil. Have we hit “peak soil,” and if we have, what can we do about it?

Green jobs aren’t appearing in Britain, just as they have failed to take off in America.

Argentina has until the end of the month to settle with the victors in its recent Supreme Court case, or else it will default. But so far, it looks like it might not even be negotiating at all.

UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer, will dramatically expand the number of state exchanges in which it offers plans next year. But widespread consumer confusion could threaten the stability of their new customer base.

“Between Sovereign states there can be no last resort except war; if war no longer serves that purpose, that fact alone proves that we must have a new concept of the state.”

—Hannah Arendt, in an interview with Adelbert Reif, 1970.