The ACA debate often produces more heat than light. One way of improving it is to produce a list of metrics that allow us to evaluate whether the law is working.

As Iraq disintegrates, minorities are praising the impartial protection of the Kurdish peshmerga. Meanwhile, Iraq’s central government has been accused of massacring Sunni prisoners.

Eying an increasingly assertive China and a troubled Pakistan, Indian PM Modi moves to expand the country’s military budget. As he promised on the campaign trail, he’s making India’s foreign policy more “muscular.”

The media is complaining about partisan gridlock in Washington preventing long-term funding for the Highway Trust Fund to go through. They’re very much missing the bigger picture.

As the Ukrainian army pushes into Luhansk, an errant Ukrainian shell reportedly killed a civilian in Russia. How many more incidents like that can Putin weather at home before his nationalist bona fides are called into question?

A new type of indoor farming grows large crops in small spaces, and could be the latest reason to thumb your nose at a Malthusian.

As the Rolling Stones rocked Tel Aviv, the MLA’s BDS petition went down in flames. But the fight over BDS is far from over.

Good afternoon, TAI readers! If you can tear yourself away from the World Cup final, take a look at what you might have missed on the site over the past week.

NYC is considering a bill that would regulate the costumed characters in Times Square. This really is a new low for big government.

Argentina isn’t the only country using free-viewing of the World Cup as a way to soften people’s political disgust.