Teen pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion rates are falling dramatically, according to a comprehensive data survey from Guttmacher. Both the right and the left have different reasons to celebrate this news, but that’s only because it is good news for everyone.

Watch for yourself (but fair warning: the language is more explicit than what you’d hear from Jon Stewart):

American health care is become class stratified, and the Affordable Care Act is making access and cost problems even worse for low- and middle-income Americans.

There’s a new book out about inequality written by a Frenchman. But unlike the one that’s getting all the press, this one is more sanguine about the politics surrounding inequality.

If there’s one thing the next Indian Prime Minister must accomplish, it’s the creation of manufacturing jobs. Under Modi, Gujarat became famous for its friendliness to industry. But can that success be replicated at the national level?

67 percent of employers now allow their employees to work from home occasionally, up from just 50 percent in 2008. Telework is picking up steam, and that’s good news for employers, employees, and the planet.

Even after the last-minute surge in enrollment, only 26 percent of new health insurance enrollees say that they were previously uninsured. This falls far short of success.

Genetically modified farm animals may be a key part of feeding future generations in what looks to be a hotter and more hostile world.

A human rights lawyer working for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan was murdered for defending people accused of blasphemy.

Japanese nationalists slipped propaganda and revised history into the translation of a British journalist’s book. The elderly writer is flabbergasted at the insertions—but the book is selling fast in Japan.