The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after five years of captivity by the Taliban might seem like a straightforward win for the Obama Administration. But the story is more complicated, and a flat-footed White House is now feeling the blowback.

Google plans to spend $1 to $3 billion on a fleet of low-orbiting satellites that will provide internet to remote areas and third world countries. Is this the future of communications?

Skyrocketing hospital prices highlight the source of American health care dysfunction: every year care gets more and more expensive.

Blue-collar wages are increasing slowly but surely. Some industries, including construction and trucking, are even struggling to fill positions.

Following through on campaign promises to be tough on immigration issues, BJP politicians threatened to “remove” so-called “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants” from northeast India. Anti-immigrant sentiment has led to brutal violent before in the region. It could happen again.

Those leading the Scottish independence fight claim that a break with the UK would benefit Scotland’s economy, but in fact the costs could be substantial, says the NYT. And is the political price of the independence movement already too high?

Chinese-made solar panels incur twice the environmental costs of their European counterparts, according to a new study. The world’s race to the bottom of panel manufacturing has a downside many greens won’t like to acknowledge.

European reliance on Russian natural gas is in large part a self-inflicted wound.

The government will now require Medicare to cover sex-reassignment surgeries. When you look past the culture war, there’s a deeper problem it reveals: We can’t go on making insurance more and more comprehensive.

The lessons of World War I are still with us a century later—for better and for worse.