If it works, the premier instrument of American naval supremacy could be meaningfully blunted.

After a weekend that saw close to 200 people locked up for “irresponsible” reporting and rumor-mongering, one of China’s top hedge fund managers has been detained and hasn’t been heard from since yesterday.

Ukraine’s parliament has taken an important first step towards devolving some authority to the breakaway eastern regions of the country. The decision was met with deadly violence on the streets, and political maneuvering in the halls of power.

Greece may have just hit upon a trick that Italy has been pulling on the EU for years: the country agrees to reforms and looks superficially busy implementing them—and all the while the bureaucracy does its best to de-fang every effort.

Brazil has officially entered a recession, and its people are nervous about the currency. With China’s troubles perhaps just beginning, the future is not looking too bright.

With last Friday’s NLRB ruling, progressives have taken up William F. Buckley’s stance—”athwart history, yelling ‘Stop!’” It won’t work.

Yep, the Chinese are having them. Taken alongside all the recent economic news, it looks like lots of very successful and well-informed people in China think there is something serious to worry about.

In the next five to ten years, Pakistan could have more nuclear weapons than any country in the world, except the United States and Russia. Whatever might it do with that surplus?

But the kind of reforms Ukraine needs firmly to place itself on a Westward trajectory still do not appear to be taking hold.

In a society that is both pluralist and democratic different beliefs and values will have to co-exist. Does this mean that polyamorous arrangements should be sanctioned by the state?