Last week the MERS virus turned up in South Asia; now it’s in Greece. Airports are a country’s weak points: One infected traveler can infect people in a nation thousands of miles away.

More than 140 people have died of the virus so far in Africa, though the outbreak does not appear to have spread beyond Guinea and Liberia. While that’s mildly encouraging, in the age of globalization, a deadly virus can be only one airplane ride away from anyone on earth.

Higher education is evolving slowly but surely, and one small school is giving its adult students credit for the skills they already have.

Federal student debt forgiveness programs have been growing at an alarming pace, and some in government are beginning to call for scaling them back.

More community colleges are renaming themselves in order to appeal to a broader range of students, as they move into the market for four-year degrees and workforce development programs.

The very structural characteristics that launched the economic successes of Brazil, Russia, India, and China are now holding them back.

Four basic principles defined the Founders’ foreign policy. We need to re-learn them.

The old foreign policy “schools” debate is exhausted. We need a new synthesis.

The Obama Administration represents the dawn of a new and superior conception of American foreign policy.

Working abroad for the U.S. government in the darkest corners of human depravity can make a person very unwell.