As ISIS continues to gain ground, the Shi’a are getting worried. Now, 25,000 Indian Shi’a have signed up to go defend Shi’i holy sites in Iraq.

Yesterday taxi drivers angry over Uber held up traffic over D.C. The result? Paying customers trying to hail taxis had a harder time finding them.

In an effort that may not succeed, U.S. and Israeli victims of Iranian, Syrian, and N. Korean terror have gained permission from a U.S. court to take control of those countries’ domain names. Will this give rise to another outcry against U.S. oversight of the internet?

Egypt and Iraq both ignored Secretary of State John Kerry this week. This was not a freak occurrence, but the foreseeable fruit of a deliberate American policy.

With Iraq coming apart at the seams, there are not a lot of reasons for America to use airpower in Iraq. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some limited cases where airstrikes could serve a strategic interest.

An amendment to a State Department budget bill would rename the street of China’s U.S. embassy after a Chinese dissident. This is exactly the kind of reckless, feel-good gesture that makes the work of promoting human rights around the world even harder.

Some Coloradan landowners are upset at recent fracking moratoriums, which are preventing them from cashing in on their mineral rights. Other countries wish they had this problem.

Josef Joffe and Robert Kagan spoke on a panel entitled “The Authoritarian Temptation – And the Need To Push Back” as part of a recent conference on “Re-thinking Democracy Promotion Amid Rising Authoritarianism.” The conference was jointly sponsored by The American Interest, Freedom House, and Johns Hopkins-SAIS.

On the heels of its string of battlefield victories, ISIS is revving up its youth outreach campaign. Vulnerable youth are likely to feel the pull, from the U.S. to China.

Vladimir Putin made a small conciliatory gesture earlier this week on Ukraine, primarily aimed at stalling further EU sanctions against Russia. It appears to have worked: further European sanctions appear unlikely. President Obama, however, must not be fooled.