HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is out of a job. That tells you all you need to know about Obamacare’s reputed success.

Labor unrest is the latest crisis to confront Egypt’s military government, which will deal with protest leaders in the usual brutal way. The people want stability, but at what price?

ExxonMobil claims to have produced a greener fracking fluid. Will it be green enough to convince Europe to tap its sizable reserves of shale gas?

A commission of local business and union leaders in LA is advising the city to adopt Warren Buffett’s lower estimates on pension investment returns. It’s a smart move, but can the city afford it?

As conservatives work to repeal and replace Obamacare, Vermont has started to build a single-payer system.

South Africa has the world’s eighth largest reserves of shale gas. Can it extract them without running afoul of the problems that have plagued its mining industries?

Modi is amplifying the Hindu Nationalist aspect of his message as India’s largest state begins to vote.

Brazil’s President is dealing with some hard realities: severe drought, soaring inflation, and a rough preparation process for the upcoming World Cup. The BRICs, once the darlings of the global economy, have a rough road ahead.

Apocalyptic warnings about climate doom may help greens capture public attention, but they also generate “denialism, fatalism, and polarization.”

Medicare gives doctors an incentive to prescribe expensive drugs, likely costing the Federal government billions of dollars every year. But the solution to this problem isn’t more regulation or more federal control over health care; it’s more consumer control.