Republicans on the Hill seem to be shifting the shutdown fight away from Obamacare, but one possible ACA-related compromise continues to get play in the media: the repeal of the medical device tax. It’s a part of the law we haven’t written about much here at Via Meadia, because it’s not something the ACA stands or falls […]

While we’re still waiting for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to announce the Peace Prize tomorrow, people everywhere—including a choked up Jon Stewart—are rooting for Malala Yousufzai, a 16 year old from the mountains of Pakistan who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education.People are rooting for her everywhere, that is, except Pakistan.There the […]

There's a lot more than meets the eye in the argument between merchants and banks over who pays debit card swipe fees.

Mark Leibovich's This Town is a symptom of the same Beltway insider disease it aims to describe.

The ambitions of post-Cold War U.S. policy in Central Europe have hit a wall.

The rise of Germany is reconfiguring the former Warsaw Pact zone as both the United States and the European Union struggle over a crisis of political economy.

What statesmen come to call various regions of the world predisposes them to adopt certain strategic concepts over others.

Russia and America are natural allies in the north Pacific.

American prosperity and security are linked to the ability of financial markets to stimulate invention and innovation.

The "great (colonial) American novel" was written more than half a century ago. John Barth's 1960 masterpiece, The Sot Weed Factor, keeps improving with age.