The recovery from superstorm Sandy has been messy in the same way the aftermath of hurricane Katrina was. Thankfully President Obama is in office, or we would have already heard all about it.

If Kiev’s forces continue to retake the border, Putin will have to choose between increasing military support or watching Ukraine wear the rebels down. If he ups his support, he risks incurring painful sanctions from the West, but if the rebels lose, he’ll suffer a blow to his prestige at home.

ISIS, the group that took over Mosul last week, uses sophisticated accounting and social media in its quest to spread violence and chaos in the Middle East. This is no ragtag group.

Seattle has reversed the cap it put on Uber drivers in March. This is a concession that will make the world greener, raise salaries, and make consumers happier all at one.

The great religious traditions of west Asia, on the one hand, and south and east Asia, on the other, approach the mysteries of the cosmos and human history from very different starting points.

The Supreme Court said that Argentina had to tell US bondholders where it was keeping its assets around the globe and had to pay creditors back in full from its 2001 default, in a pair of rulings that delivered a body blow to the South American republic yesterday, and may have important repercussions well beyond its borders.

Thanks to fracking, the U.S. is dominating the refined petroleum products market. A new IEA report predicts that the rest of the world will jump on the shale bandwagon by the end of the decade, but America has built up an impressive head start.

Ebola has claimed seven more lives in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. These are the first cases in Liberia since April—which only proves of how difficult it is to manage and contain this horrible disease.

Europe can’t afford to ignore the havoc brewing in the Middle East.

How Western central bankers and Treasury Secretaries cater to illicit drug syndicates, money-launderers, racketeers, and kleptocrats.