The Czech Republic has voiced its disapproval of a proposal for the EU to negotiate a single price for Russian gas. The logic of Prague’s opposition isn’t clear, but it’s the kind of conflict Putin likes to see.

Militant Islam could once again threaten India, and Modi isn’t likely to turn the other cheek in response.

They’re a nasty bunch, and they’re expected to make big gains in this week’s EU parliament election.

The EIA reduced its estimate for Monterey shale’s recoverable oil by a whopping 96 percent, according to the LA Times. California is feeling the pain that the rest of the world has been experiencing recently.

A gruesome attack on the Nigerian city of Jos has killed over a hundred people. As social media activists continue to protest the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls, they’d do well to keep the extent of Nigeria’s problems in mind.

One of the world’s biggest energy producers just inked a deal with the world’s largest energy consumer. The details of the agreement remain murky, but it’s clearly a win for both Moscow and Beijing.

A university is a corporation draped with a bit of ivy: State schools that pay the highest salaries to their presidents also have fast-rising rates of student debt, an abundance of administrators, and a proliferation of adjuncts.

Another defeat for Kemalism: French Canadians roundly rejected a draconian new law preventing all state employees from exhibiting “conspicuous religious symbols” at work.

For the first time, support for fracking dipped below 50 percent in Britain, signaling coalescing opposition to the controversial drilling practice there. It’s too bad UK citizens don’t have the mineral rights Americans enjoy.

A college president makes a smart case that administrative bloat is driven by government regulations and other cumbersome bureaucratic requirements. Sounds right to us.