Some intemperate statements to a journalist may reveal just how the Obama administration is approaching the thorny problems of Iran and Iraq. This is the third part of a longer essay, with part 1 here and part 2 here.

As America’s largest generation ages, most of its members are opting to continue working past the traditional retirement age of 65, according to a new Gallup poll. For Millennials and Gen Xers, this trend throws up yet another obstacle to landing a job or being promoted.

In the run-up to Geneva II, all of the Administration’s policy failings are coalescing into a truly weird and tragic spectacle. Part of a longer essay. Read Part 1 here.

Self-proclaimed Middle East “experts” have long bemoaned the instability of the region. They didn’t know the first thing about real instability.

If you were uninsured before Obamacare, you’re probably still uninsured. The WSJ reports that new analysis of early enrollment data shows that vast majority of those who signed up for Obamacare had insurance before. Instead of actually helping the uninsured, the ACA is currently just inducing demand for a different kind of insurance product among those well-off enough to have had insurance already. This law was supposed to be a huge leap forward in health care policy, the centerpiece of a progressive agenda designed to expand access to health care while reducing costs. So far, it hasn’t fulfilled a single one of these promises, and our broken health care system stands just as much as ever in need of radical new solutions.

To see Delhi’s Chief Minister being beaten up by the city’s own police force is a bizarre sight indeed. Even though Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of India’s upstart Aam Adami Party (AAP), is now in office, he has been sleeping on the streets for the past few days along with hundreds of his supporters, demanding police reforms.

Known as Taliban Khan by his detractors, Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician, has been the most vocal supporter of dialogue between the state and the Taliban to end an insurgency that has so far cost upwards of 50,000 lives. His insistence on negotiations has made him look desperate and weak as the Taliban continue to wreak havoc across the country, killing 40 people in separate bomb attacks over this weekend alone.

Brick-and-mortar stores are struggling to compete with online retailers. The death of the Mall is giving way to a more personalized, more convenient way of shopping, but the Earth—not the consumer—may be the biggest winner in all of this.

Anyone who hasn’t been scared off a PhD program yet by reports of thousands of grads competing for scarce tenure-track positions and the growing specter of grad school debt should take a look at this New York Times profile of a recent grad looking to make it as a professor in New York. Like many of his peers, James Hoff has spent the past year and a half since he graduated piecing together adjunct lecturer gigs at various schools while applying for highly competitive full-time jobs. These gigs are unstable, low-paying and offer no benefits, leaving him in a precarious situation.

China is secretly at work on its second (and first homemade) aircraft carrier in the coastal city of Dalian, according to reports. Construction is expected to be completed in six years, and officials say China will eventually have at least four such carriers. Alongside the new aircraft carrier in Dalian are two advanced missile destroyers, also under construction. The new ships will help bolster the power and reach of the Chinese navy as it seeks to take control of nearby seas and project power farther abroad.