California Governor Jerry Brown comes up with a plan to pay off the debt of the state’s teacher’s pension funds. It’s the right call, but it will hit school districts hard.

The hacking charges brought by the Department of Justice against five Chinese military officials will certainly enrage China, not to mention color its views of U.S. policy in Asia. Let’s just hope it was a deliberate move.

China may be gearing up for instability in its neighborhood. It’s beefing up its strategic reserves of crude oil at an “unprecedented” rate.

Thailand’s military declared martial law early on Tuesday morning. It’s not a coup, the army chief said, no matter how much it looks like one.

Yesterday Credit Suisse pled guilty to conspiring to help U.S. account holders evade taxes. The Justice Department’s planned punishments—hefty fines and criminal cases against senior staff—strike the right balance between stabilizing the markets and making certain that justice is served.

An able and confrontational leader who is close to Japan, Modi could become a problem for China.

The FT’s Edward Luce calls Obama’s current energy policy “one of the above,” and criticizes the President’s overreliance on shale gas to power this country. We’re living high today, but we need to continue to plan for tomorrow.

What kind of culture war issue could ally Catholics and feminists against Evangelicals and gay rights advocates? Meet the “gestational carrier” for hire.

College kids must be running out of objects of righteous indignation. The latest campus scourge is the emotional harm wrought by…the books that make up much of the liberal arts curriculum.

A renegade Libyan general has launched attacks against Islamists and stormed parliament, whose leader is now mobilizing Islamist forces in response.