Libya has become the prime destination for smugglers and migrants hoping to make it to Europe, while Italy struggles to deal with the flood of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.

Ebola has claimed seven more lives in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. These are the first cases in Liberia since April—which only proves of how difficult it is to manage and contain this horrible disease.

How Western central bankers and Treasury Secretaries cater to illicit drug syndicates, money-launderers, racketeers, and kleptocrats.

A believer and an atheist seek out their antitheses. Do they meet somewhere in the middle, or pass in the murk of half-baked pseudo-syntheses?

Starbucks announces a plan to provide free online education to its workers, in partnership with Arizona State University. It’s a feel-good story, but the move is about more than good publicity.

Walter Russell Mead writes in the WSJ that America can’t expect the world to follow its “optimistic script,” which developed over two centuries of uncommon good fortune.

Why 1814 should tell us more than 1914 about 2014.

Is television the new cinema? Just asking the question that way misses the point of both media.

Mainline Protestantism didn’t secularize itself via the Social Gospel and become weaker as a religion; it became a new religion—and a powerful one, too.

Britain is leaping head first into the juridicalization of its politics. It will regret it.