Georgia Tech’s online master’s program in computer science has gotten good marks from students at the end of its first year. It could lead the way into new era of partnerships between MOOC providers and universities.

Alternatives to the mainstream health care insurance market exist and deserve more attention than they are getting. They can help control costs and build up social capital.

Health care coverage is full of trend stories about pet solutions to our medical crisis. These stories are often flimsy, but a solution to our crisis is possible if we stay realistic.

Walter Russell Mead takes a look at Obama’s slow-motion vanishing act in the New York Daily News.

By opposing Keystone, greens are forcing Canadian crude to find its way to market by rail, a much more dangerous option. A new report finds that oil-by-rail accidents could lead to more than 400 deaths and nearly 3,000 injuries over the next decade.

Yes, Brazilians still love soccer, but they hate the World Cup and what it has come to represent: a prize whose luster will fade fast after the games are done and Brazil’s chronic economic problems remain.

Decommissioned military equipment is winding up in the hands of police departments across the country, and being used in troubling incidents of excessive police force. The militarization of U.S. police departments is a threat to our civil liberties.

Watch the live feed to this special all-day event, hosted by The American Interest, Freedom House, and Johns Hopkins-SAIS.

This graph is a stark illustration of the remarkable turnaround in America’s energy security landscape, brought to us largely by the shale boom.

Has political hierarchy in the form of the state met its match in today’s networked world?