The United States cannot pursue a strategic foreign policy if each new crisis prompts it to rebalance to one flashpoint or another. It needs to identify a set of stable priorities, which is difficult if not impossible when one is in permanent crisis-management mode.

The for-profit Corinthian Colleges is calling it quits following accusations that it misled students. It’s nice to see a school with an unsavory reputation bite the dust, but our higher ed problems extend to non-profit institutions as well.

By stoking nationalist passions Putin hopes to consolidate his, and Russia’s, power. But it’s also unleashing a lot of prejudices, including anti-Semitism.

The regional struggles in Asia are just getting started, and there are no easy or obvious off-ramps. U.S. policymakers focusing on the meltdown in the Middle East should not lose sight of this other ticking time-bomb.

The findings of Freedom House’s Nations in Transit report point to Russia’s role as model and enabler for Eurasia’s autocracies.

Who lost Iraq? The longest-serving American official in Iraq paints a detailed and nuanced, but ultimately damning picture of how bad U.S. policy helped the country unravel.

The total amount of land used to grow crops has declined since 1998, while the global food supply has increased. We’re growing more with less, and proving environmentalist fear-mongers wrong in the process.

Australia hosts this year’s G20 summit, and ahead of that November meeting, it’s pouring cold water on the notion that the assembled countries will make much progress on addressing climate change.

Private colleges are suffering, and have been for a while. They are granting steeper and steeper discounts on what at first glance seem to be astronomical fees.

Ukraine’s recent battlefield victories could force Putin to choose between defeat and international isolation.