America’s pension crisis is one of the biggest stories and challenges of our time, and we’ve been doing our best these past few years to provide frequent and in-depth coverage. For those who want more, Fox Business is providing a new resource that we’ll be checking regularly for all things pension, and you should too.

The debate over MOOCs has quickly become polarized between defenders of the old higher-ed order on one side, and futurists predicting a total transformation of theindustry on the other. (As regular readers will know, we’ve tilted more toward the latter group, though we admit that the technology has seen some setbacks in recent months.) Over at The American, however, an excellent new piece by Edward Tenner threads the needle between these two views; positing MOOCs as both less dangerous and less transformative than either their critics and admirers claim.

Sectarian tensions in Pakistan have gone from bad to worse ever since riots broke out in Rawalpindi a month ago. On Sunday, a Shia cleric was murdered in Lahore. The killing itself was seen as a response to the assassination of a Sunni leader of religious party known for its anti-Shia rhetoric. And on Wednesday, 3 people were killed as a suicide bomber tried to break into a Shia mosque in Rawalpindi. Is Pakistan going the route of Iran and Syria?

The Turkish lira took a tumble on Friday, hitting an all-time low against the dollar amidst rising concerns about the latest political turmoil to hit Erdoğan’s government. Turkey is losing its margin for error. The politics and the economics are both going wrong in a country that not all that long ago was seen as a model for the Middle East.

South Sudan was never stable. It was never on a trajectory toward becoming a normal Westphalian state, no matter what foreign observers hoped and wished.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is opening up the UK’s countryside to drilling—and, yes, that includes fracking—and he’s got a message for the EU: don’t rule out our shale gas.

Balancing green goals against the imperative for growth can be tricky (just look at Europe), but one solution can advance both pursuits: increasing efficiency. The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has some smart suggestions for next steps on increasing building efficiencies for a variety of clients, from universities to government agencies, from corporate giants to car dealerships. Green policymakers would do well to follow the RMI’s example and go after this kind of realistic, environmentally-friendly option.

The Economist calls it “one of the most audacious challenges ever to the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish prime minister.” In a police operation, a mayor, a construction typhoon, and the sons of three of Erdoğan’s cabinet ministers were arrested as part of a corruption probe. The juicy details were leaked to the press: “$4.5 million in cash packed in shoe boxes found in the home of the chief executive of a state-run bank; a money-counting machine and piles of bank notes discovered in the bedroom of a government minister’s son.”

A New York federal judge has issued the first permanent injunction against Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate. His opinion is the first to hold that the mandate, even with the compromise, is a “substantial burden” on the free exercise of religion. The opinion is important because the Supreme Court has agreed to hear two related cases, and the arguments offered by Cogan here could come into play at the Court. But it’s also an entertaining read, largely because Cogan repeatedly makes the point that the way the Obama administration has implemented the ACA undermines the very mandate it wants to defend.

The vote by the 5,000-member American Studies Association to support the academic boycott of Israel, reportedly by a 2-1 margin, has evoked many responses, but none so far has identified the irony at the core of the matter.