South America is arguably the one arena where President Obama’s hands-off strategy has worked. But things could still get very ugly, very soon.

China’s real economy isn’t doing great, but may not be responsible for the stock market slide.

Last year, America’s average natural gas price hit a low not previously seen this millennium.

The Gospels occupy a kind of center point in human culture as a whole: products of a particular time and place, but comprehensible to all.

The President and his Administration have shown a marked preference for words in lieu of deeds, and the mainstream press has rarely called them out on this.

Colleges should be conscious of maintaining and expanding black and Hispanic enrollment. But affirmative action is not the answer.

As the Saudis’ regional allies turn on Iran, there are signs that the West is turning against the Saudis. If offshore balancing is the goal, this is not the way to go about it.

European leaders, having embarked on the project of rapidly integrating large numbers of immigrants from a failing society into their own, may have a day of reckoning ahead, perhaps sooner than most people expected it to come.

Today’s Russian Orthodox Church is the child of the Soviet-era Church, which a relentless KGB subordinated to Communist power.

The last year of an administration, as seen from the inside.