States rarely abstain from things that they have the power to do with ease, and modern IT makes pervasive surveillance an almost trivial matter.

As a conservative think tank is roiling the waters of North Carolina’s public higher education system, it’s clear that red states pose a huge threat to the dysfunctional higher ed status quo.

The GCC asks for formal defense guarantees, putting the Administration in a bind.

Secretary John Kerry was warmly received in Colombo this weekend, as Sri Lanka’s government makes moves for democratic reforms. Beijing is watching warily.

The media has by and large given President Obama’s failed Afghanistan policy a pass—just as it has his larger foreign policy missteps.

The EU is going after more than just Google.

Democrats are pouring scorn on Japan’s PM for not apologizing in his speech to Congress for the enslavement of “comfort women” during World War II. They are indulging in unproductive posturing.

Over and over again, Iran has shown that it wants to make Obama’s life more difficult the more he reaches out to it. Patience is a virtue, but it is not the only virtue.

In the wake of Jakarta’s execution of two Australian citizens for drug smuggling, an important relationship between U.S. allies in Asia has hit a rough patch. It won’t be the last, either.

As the fight heats up in eastern Ukraine, the EU is putting pressure on Kyiv to live up to its Minsk commitments. Instead, Brussels ought to be thinking of ways to help Ukraine’s reform along.