Pro Forma Neutrality
From Welfare to Warfare

As troubling revelations emerge about the UNRWA’s activities in Gaza, including that it discovered missiles in its schools and then returned them to local officials, both the organization’s mission and its politics deserve a closer look.

The Oldest Hatred
For Most Germans, Fighting Anti-Semitism Seems Unimportant

As the Gaza conflict stretches into its fourth week and the death toll continues to rise, European anti-Semitism is intensifying, particularly in Germany. So far, Jews are finding scant support as they speak out against recent attacks.

Epidemic
A Jarring Ebola Statistic

According to the WHO, one in ten victims of Ebola have been health workers.

Sun Stroke of Genius
Are Wet Roads the Key to Solar Power’s Future?

New research out of MIT suggests a new, more efficient, and potentially more cost-effective method for harnessing the sun’s energy.

Deadline Disaster
US Biofuel Boondoggle Is Bureaucracy at Its Worst

The EPA is pushing the deadline for refiners to comply with last year’s biofuel targets back even further. This is bureaucracy as its worst.

Obamacare Fail
The ACA Is in a Total PR Free-fall

A new poll, taken in the midst of a string of neutral or positive media coverage, shows undecideds breaking against the ACA. Obamacare may be losing the war of attrition.

Gassing Up
It's Been a "Good Week" for US LNG

Two proposed LNG export facilities—one in Oregon and one in Texas—received federal approval this week, a sign of shale’s transformational power.

ACA Fail Fractal
Top Florida Insurer to Increase Premiums by 17 Percent

Florida Blue will raise its premiums for ACA plans by an average of 17.6 percent next year, after at least four years of increases of over 11 percent. The Affordable Care Act is doing nothing to address underlying factors making our system more unsustainable every year.

Game of Thrones
Japan to Give Coast Guard Ships to Vietnam

Japan has offered Vietnam six of its coast guard ships, lightly used, to bulk up Hanoi’s patrol fleet. As China races ahead in expanding its naval capabilities, its neighbors are banding together to balance it.

CIA Spies on Senate
The Dangers of Obama’s Intel Mismanagement

As John Brennan apologized to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his staff spying on them, yet another failure of the Obama administration to manage its intel agencies soundly is coming into focus. It couldn’t be happening at a worse time.

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