A new report from Joel Kotkin shows that families are fleeing the biggest blue cities because of unaffordable housing costs.

President Xi Jinping appears set to steam ahead with an aggressive foreign policy in 2016.

Europe’s oil benchmark fell below $35 per barrel for the first time since 2004.

Christmas is important to Christians because from their point of view the Baby Jesus is the meaning of Christmas, and the meaning of Christmas is the meaning of life.

Scottish nationalist leader Alex Salmond made a merry trip to Tehran before Christmas. But in Washington, there was scarcely a stir.

Japan’s Shinzo Abe and South Korea’s Park Gyeun-He are the big winners here.

“Returns on a college education are falling,” warns a recent report from the investment bank.

Amidst tragedy and sectarian hatred, moderate Shi‘a in Saudi Arabia have an historic opportunity to reject militancy and to speak up for their rights.

Cuba may be a small, geopolitically inconsequential country, but it is a useful test case for analysts of Obama’s foreign policy.

A grim picture of rising costs suggests that the Affordable Care Act, with its focus on coverage expansion rather than cost control, came at things from the wrong end.