A new poll by the Times of India released today found that India’s far right, Hindu nationalist opposition party, the BJP, will take home a record-breaking number of seats in parliament during elections scheduled for later this year. The tally for Congress, the current ruling party, is projected to collapse from its current 206 to a lowly 89, its worst ever showing since India’s independence.

The results so far from the Kansas Red Dawn suggest that even drastic policies changes might ultimately have only mild effects.

Higher Ed has added an average of 87 administrative positions per day, a rate has scarcely slowed since the economic downturn, despite tuition increases.

Biofuels were sold as a renewable, non-emitting energy source, when on balance the anachronistic energy source does more harm to the environment than good.

Everything you thought you knew about mammograms is wrong. The fundamental truth emerging from recent work on the US health care system is that health, health care, and health insurance are all three different things

American unions have just suffered one of their best setbacks in recent years. Yesterday the workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant rejected unionization with the United Auto Workers. What is stunning is that the company, Volkswagen, supported the unionization drive, in part because Germany’s powerful car workers’ union pressured management to do so.

It is rare that American diplomacy is conducted this poorly for so long a period of time. President Obama more than anything else needs to get to grips with the reality that his basic strategic choices aren’t working out.

American exceptionalism is in retreat, and the centralized national security state is to blame.

A riot broke out in the Indian parliament on Thursday as politicians literally fought over the creation of India’s newest state, Telangana. An MP brought and used pepper spray, causing pandemonium and prompting the House Speaker to suspend 17 MPs.

Doctors are fleeing private practices for the security of hospitals. The exodus will be a disaster for U.S. health care.