Oil production, made possible by the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is unlocking vast supplies of energy from the North Dakota's Bakken formation and putting it on an economic trajectory that is unmatched elsewhere in the country.

The decline of intra-European Union political cooperation, facilitated by the corrosion of trust inherent in the EU financial crisis, inevitably will affect the common foreign and security policy.

John Pomfret's front page article in the Washington Post on the Obama administration's arm twisting of the Dalai Lama is further reason to doubt that the president's "strategic reassurance" policy is anything but a policy of appeasing the PRC.

Losing money is embarrassing. And an embarrassed Jamie Dimon publicly admitted that J.P. Morgan Chase goofed. Three senior executives lost their jobs as a result. But politicians and regulators in Washington are rushing to leverage the bank's misfortune for their own gain.

The Supreme Court held down an important ruling confirming that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to own guns.

Progress for teacher unions will result in decreased accountability.

When "low fat" diets became the public health rage in the 1960s, it contradicted centuries of caution about too many carbohydrates.

In a complaint filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri, aka Turkcell, the Turkish mobile media giant, alleges that MTN Group Ltd, Africa’s largest mobile operator, bribed Iranians, sold South African votes at the IAEA and UN, and otherwise prostituted South African foreign policy to oust Turkcell from its contract in Iran and gain the lucrative market for itself.