After ordering 2,000 new trains, France was dismayed to find they’re too wide to fit most of the country’s station platforms. How could this happen?

Who will replace Catherine Ashton as Europe’s foreign policy chief? Europe’s heads of state have an opportunity to back a strong figure, someone to personify and give strategic coherence to the EU’s foreign policy instruments.

To power its burgeoning economy, China is consuming more energy than any other country in the world. And in order to meet that demand, it is increasingly looking abroad for supplies and investing in the liberal global economy more than ever before.

Master’s degrees are as widely held today as bachelor’s degrees were half a century ago. Times have changed, but in this case, not for the better.

A system of alliances emerges to counter China in the South China Sea.

After first saying that the military had not declared a coup, Thailand’s army chief backtracked and now says it has. He insists that it was “necessary” to take control, and by most accounts, there is very little disagreement with the decision.

A prominent Russian oligarch, hit by U.S. sanctions, has just been named Russia’s point person for its recently invigorated business relations with China. Snubbed by the West, Moscow is shoring up its geopolitical position by strengthening its ties with Beijing.

A study presented at the annual Populaton Association of America meeting suggests that millions of Americans changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when filling out their 2010 census forms. What does this tell us about our political destiny as a nation?

When it comes to responding to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, Europe is caught between corporate interests, regional security differences, and thoroughly postmodern publics. But the United States can still help clear up the allies’ strategic confusion.

Obama is standing behind VA Secretary Eric Shinseki. Is that a move calculated to protect government-run health care from criticism?