Abortion in America
SCOTUS Case Spotlights Common Ground on Abortion

Pro-life and pro-choice groups have come together to support a woman suing UPS over pregnancy discrimination. The two sides share more common ground than the media often suggest.

Trouble in Paradise?
Let’s Play the Carbon Market Blame Game!

The head of the UN’s carbon trading scheme blasted EU technocrats for “dumb decisions” that have undermined his program.

ACA Agonistes
A Misleading Case for Obamacare

Jonathan Chait thinks the ACA is performing swimmingly. It may not be the utter horror show that conservatives predicted, but his case for the law is leaky at best.

Energy Woes
Without Nuclear, Japan’s Emissions Hit Record High

Japanese greenhouse gas emissions hit a record high last year thanks to the shutdown of its nuclear reactors.

Plane Plight
France’s Arms Bind

When French officials talk Mistral, they’re thinking Rafale. The sales of the latter, France’s premier fighter jet, are up, but this only highlights France’s larger dilemma.

Power Problems
Winter Has Arrived in Ukraine

Ukraine’s energy minister begged his countrymen to lower their electricity consumption to avoid blackouts.

ACA Agonistes
ACA Gets 2nd High-Profile Dem Defection

Outgoing Iowa Democrat Sen. Tom Harkin, who helped draft the ACA, now thinks the law was a mistake. Even though he claims that single payer is the answer, he does get a few things right.

Public Health
The Mixed Blessings of the Health Care Slowdown

For the fifth year running, national health-care spending has grown at historically low rates. But for many Americans, health care is only getting less affordable.

Pension Wars
Detroit’s Bankruptcy and Its Painful Reforms

While Detroit is not out of the woods yet, its experience points to the fact that troubled cities’ most needed structural reforms may only be possible under extraordinary circumstances.

China's peripheral vision
Xi Has a Bad Day

Xi Jinping is having trouble, both in his anti-corruption purge and his quest to increase China’s power in the “peripheries.”

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