Will Obamacare stop your employer from giving you healthcare?  Yesterday a report came out showing that the number of Americans receiving insurance from their employers has been declining since 1999. A debate is raging in the press on whether Obamacare will accelerate this trend.A piece in the WSJ profiles three small business that are contemplating paying the penalty for non-compliance […]

Employers take note: workers consider telework-enabled schedule flexibility as one of the most desired benefits. As the FT reports, many employees even value it more than a high salary: Clive Davis, director at recruitment specialist Robert Half UK, [acknowledges] that benefits around flexible working are the most desirable: “The ability to work flexibly from home is often […]

Young women are growing tired of the culture that was supposed to liberate them. That, at least, is what Raisa Bruner, a Yale senior, and many of her female cohorts think.They call themselves “SWUGS”, or senior washed up girls—women who, faced with a “hook-up culture” that leaves them feeling empty, have become apathetic about their […]

This piece is third in a series on the challenges facing the U.S. Armed Forces. Previous entries discussed the Army and the Air Force. As the U.S. Marine Corps winds down its operations in Afghanistan, it faces a different kind of battlefield back home, where the challenges take shape as numbers, ideas and purposes. This operational theater […]

Russia’s tumultuous and mostly regrettable post-Cold War history is paralleled in some ways by an earlier time, one that provided the setting for the incomparable émigré journalist Alexander Herzen.

Large cities in poorly and misgoverned lands have problems dis- tinct from those in more affluent, better-institutionalized democracies. The denizens of the latter fail to appreciate what ails those of the former even as they produce “wasteful waste” of their own.

Political inequality drives economic inequality, not the other way around.

Some Australian strategists have taken a shine to Beijing. If Australia’s loyalty to America can be shaken, none of America’s Asian alliances is safe.

It’s still too early to render definitive judgment on the Iraq War, but it’s high time to start asking the right questions. We may need the answers sooner than we think.

Historian Peter Brown’s critique of Edward Gibbon also sheds light on the popular myths of American decline.