OPINION

As the United States adopts policies to lower greenhouse gas emissions, some communities will benefit from the shift to lower-carbon energy sources. But others will lose.

As the world focuses on the war in Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe, and the primary slugfest in the U.S., the two Koreas are heading toward a catastrophe in the Far East.

In Redcar, a town in the northeast of England, the community is reeling from the closure of a steelworks. It's not just Redcar...

The interventions in Syria may have deeply affected the norms that define the architecture of global security.

Syrian troops, aided by Russian airstrikes, are gradually retaking territory held by the rebels. “Russia needs to be convinced that an immediate ceasefire rather than the continuation of war serves its long-term interests,” argues Jochen Prantl, director, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, and associate professor in international relations at the Australian ...

Chronic conditions represent the single largest threat to health in America.

Galaxies of electrons in our Einsteinian universe are being expended on U.S. primary election prognostications. Still another perspective may be useful.

What might Americans and the world expect from a Hillary Clinton or a Bernie Sanders administration?

Big Pot—the next Big Tobacco—peddles the notion that by legalizing pot, the black market for the drug dries up...

Recent forecasts for the U.K. oil industry have been gloomy, indicating 79 or more platforms closing by 2024. So how pessimistic is it reasonable to be?

HSBC’s decision to keep its headquarters in London is good news for the British government. An exit would have been seen as a vote of no confidence by one of the world’s major financial institutions. But it is even better news for the British economy.

Last month hackers stole Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data belonging to more than 100,000 taxpayers.