Maliki’s decision to step down shows that the Iraqi political system is not wholly broken. What if it were still under American protection and guidance?

Old oil train tankers are prone to puncturing, and as more and more crude rides the rails, the risk of explosive accidents is increasing. The U.S. is looking to phase these tankers out, but Canada doesn’t want to use them either. A better solution: approving Keystone.

Fracking promises to open up large new reserves of geothermal energy, while also opening up the traditionally green energy source to criticism from environmentalists.

A new company is partnering with Walgreen’s to develop a cheap and convenient way of testing Americans’ blood. The technology involved might not be all new, but this partnership is exactly the kind of building block that health care reform will rest on.

Mexico’s state-owned oil company is plagued by fuzzy math and inflated oil production numbers.

A bold proposal to sustain the American middle class long into the future.

In a recent monthly oil market report, the IEA downplayed the effect of sanctions on Russian energy production, but Rosneft’s recent request for $42 billion in state aid paints an altogether different picture.

Some entertaining links and enlightening links for your Thursday.

“I’m getting good with these bombs,” writes the twenty-year-old British jihadist.

Berlin is banning Uber because its passengers might not be fully insured. These kinds of retrograde regulations are only self-destructive to the economies that adopt them.