After years of decline, states are beginning to put more money into public universities. This shouldn’t be cause for relief, though; no amount of funding can reverse the changes coming to higher ed.

Moody’s has just downgraded health insurers from a stable to a negative outlook, based largely on the disruption Obamacare has introduced. If insurers start to get more and more worried about how Obamacare will affect their prospects, the ACA could risk losing a major ally.

A poll released today in India puts Narendra Modi well in the lead for this year’s national elections, and found that the ruling Congress party could be heading for a “meltdown.”

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has announced a plan to revitalize Detroit by offering visas to 50,000 highly skilled immigrants to live in the city. There’s no guarantee it will work, but it could be just what the city needs.

The day of reckoning seems to be dawning on the latest iteration of Peronist failure in Argentina. The government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s serial refusal to bow to market realities put the country’s Central Bank in an impossible position, forcing it to pull the plug on support for the peso. This could be more than just another currency crisis. The foundations of Kirchnerismo could be beginning to crack.

Pakistani Taliban have begun targeting workers distributing polio vaccines, killing 4 in attacks over the weekend. Polio cases are on the rise, and the disease has begun to spread to Syria.

Though I had long known of Robbie Risner, fighter pilot extraordinaire, Korean War ace, first living recipient of the Air Force Cross recently featured on the cover of Time magazine, I did not actually know him. But when I heard his whispered voice under a rusty steel door in a prison cellblock called “Heartbreak Hotel,” […]

Serbia is set to build a monument to Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, atop its fortress of Kalemagdan in Belgrade. Shunting blame for World War I is all the rage these days.

The salaries of specialist doctors are skyrocketing—and those costs are being passed on to consumers. This is why reform efforts like Obamacare, which rely on subsidies more than on efforts to rein in costs, are just propping up a deeply unsustainable status quo.

Buddhist extremists are once again slaughtering Muslims in Burma’s Rahkine province. Somehow this hasn’t dampened western excitement over the country’s “democratic transformation.”