Reviews
The Art of the #fail

Decades of demonizing failure have turned America into a nation of cowards and outcasts. Risk-taking, successful or not, is vital to a resilient society.

ACA Agonistes
VA Voters Turn Against Obamacare

VA residents have shifted from majority support for the Medicaid expansion to majority opposition. This swing spells trouble for the ACA.

East vs West
Germany Takes a Harder Line against Russia

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned Russia in no uncertain terms over the Ukraine crisis. By doing so, she is moving away from Germany’s longtime policy of non-interference with the former Soviet bloc.

3D Revolution
Printing Limbs for African Children

As if 3D printers don’t have enough wow factor, imagine them in the service of humanitarian causes. A team of innovators in Los Angeles, for instance, uses them to make prosthetic limbs for African children.

ACA Fail Fractal
Obamacare Cancellations, Round Two

While the President and his team are busy spiking the football over the ACA’s success, another wave of insurance cancellations is coming. How hard will it hit?

You Are My Sunshine
Solar Panels in Outer Space

Take that, Solyndra: A Japanese firm plans to generate solar power using panels on satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

Deadly Disease
MERS Spreads to Greece

Last week the MERS virus turned up in South Asia; now it’s in Greece. Airports are a country’s weak points: One infected traveler can infect people in a nation thousands of miles away.

Pipeline Politics
Keystone XL More Popular Than Ever

Support for the Keystone pipeline is at an all-time high. Greens are failing to convince the public of the project’s faults, largely because the facts don’t support their case.

Misunderestimating The World
Obama Gets North Korea Wrong Too

Obama Administration policy on North Korea appears to be based on faulty ideas about what the Kim regime is willing to suffer to keep its nuclear weapons.

Getting Away Scot-Free?
Pensions Cloud Picture of Scottish Independence

Without the UK, Scotland would face huge pension liabilities. Things would not be as rosy for an independent Scotland as the SNP would have its fellow countrymen believe.

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