A number of recent scandals suggest that there are weaknesses and flaws in Britain's national health care system.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's pragmatic and cautious defense of Germany's national interest in the age of globalization may yet instigate an aggressive new nationalism in Europe.

Cultural attitudes regarding rape must change if we are to create a safer future for the next generation of women and girls.

Hundreds of thousands of children with disabilities are subjected to horrific violations of their human rights on a daily basis in West Africa.

By forcing Democrats to dramatize their perverse priorities in order to halt a government shutdown, U.S. Republicans can turn to completing the neutering of the Obama presidency.

China's eagerly anticipated "hard landing" hasn't happened yet, and recent indicators make one wonder if it ever will. Maybe China's skeptics should be viewed more skeptically.

he West has suffered the delusion that a war on Muslim peoples of the Mideast would produce modernity and democracy. It is essential that the West cease its interference.

he Crossroads Farmers Market in Maryland is not your typical farmers market. It was founded to offer a friendly environment for low-income people to buy fresh produce.

As Iran's economy reels and President Hassan Rouhani shows interest in rapprochement with the West, it seems high time to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran.

The U.S. Air Force did not send its acrobatic team to the Misawa Air Festival this year because of budget cuts. Military flying machines can be exorbitantly expensive.

It is preposterous to equate today's mild debates in America about foreign policy with the furies unleashed by, and against, real isolationism before World War II.

Financial traders and speculators help to allocate society's resources to the most promising businesses. But these people's activities also impose costs on the rest of us.