China and Vietnam’s battle over the South China Sea heralds seismic developments in East Asian geopolitics.

Anti-EU parties staged their strongest showing ever in Europe’s elections last weekend. Is this the beginning of the end for the European project?

Obama is slowly edging into a more interventionist stance in Syria, which includes a plan to arm moderate rebels. Hopefully this move represents a well thought out strategy, rather than a PR move intended to silence his interventionist critics.

The Republican Study Committee has GOP alternative to Obamacare, and wants to bring it to the floor before the August recess. A long last we might finally have a proper health care debate between serious alternatives.

A Navy warship with 1,000 Marines aboard deployed to the coast of Libya yesterday, ready to evacuate citizens whom the State Department warned to leave that increasingly volatile country.

A new federal investigation confirms a whistleblower’s claims that VA hospitals are systematically hiding records about average waiting times at their facilities. The VA may not be such a good model for health reform after all.

We still haven’t seen the full scope of the economic boost the shale boom is bringing to the United States.

Minnesota legislators just held an “unsession” and repealed 1,175 laws. So relax: It’s no longer illegal to carry fruit in a container of the wrong size.

The West keeps giving Russia opportunities to defuse the crisis in Ukraine, and Russia keeps on not taking them. Meanwhile, the West itself is fragmenting.

The number of government employees in New York State who have qualified for pensions over $100,000 has doubled over the past five years. Blue partisans who love high taxes, low wages, and restricted job opportunities—celebrate!