After the Arab Spring
Tunisia Seeks US Help Ahead of Upcoming Elections

The one success story of the Arab Spring, Tunisia is now under pressure from homegrown and external terrorist threats.

Clear Skies Ahead?
China’s New Six-Year Plan: Ban Coal in Beijing

By 2020, Beijing will ban the use of coal, in a bid to help clear the city’s polluted air. But this doesn’t mean China is done with coal—far from it.

Reforming Delivery
Online Shopping Finally Comes to Health Care

Medibid is a new online service that allows patients seeking common medical procedures to directly compare bids from doctors all across the country. Critics worry that quality isn’t guaranteed, but this is exactly the kind of transparent, consumer-driven technology that could help save health care.

Nasserism Redux
Egypt to Double Suez Canal Capacity

As construction begins on an ambitious effort to double the capacity of the Suez Canal, Egyptian President al-Sisi says he expects it done within the year.

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A War By Another Name
The Geography of Horror

We are in effect at war with Islamist radicalism. It is very unhelpful if this reality is denied, as the Obama administration has tried to do.

Pension Panic
Treasury Department to Scrutinize Public Pensions

A new office in the Treasury will take a look at public pensions, while at the same time promoting infrastructure bonds. Should this make us nervous?

Blue Model Pentagon
USAF Asks: Why Can’t a Drone Operator Be More Like a Bassoonist?

The USAF is using a mid-1950s model to recruit and retain 21st-century personnel, a new report recognizes. But has it faced up to how difficult, and how necessary, reform will be?

Prices Prices Prices
Newsflash: Price Transparency Works, Really

A new experiment shows that health care price transparency saves consumers money and reduces price variation.

Hegemonic Hospitals
ACA Drives Hospitals’ Race to Consolidate

The pace of hospital consolidating is picking up in NYC, in a trend driven by ACA requirements. As more hospitals consolidate in order to maximize their advantage in bargaining with insurers, rates will only continue to rise.

Hail Shale
Shale Gas Production Booming in Northeastern US

Gas production in the Marcellus shale formation is booming, producing more than seven times the amount of gas per day than it did just four short years ago.

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