The commentariat is busy poring over the latest enrollment numbers for clues on Obamacare’s future, but on Capitol Hill, the verdict is already in. A poll of Hill staffers found that the vast majority are seriously concerned about their health plans under Obamacare—so concerned, in fact, that many of them may be driven to seek new jobs. As The Hill reports, of the 38 percent of staffers who are planning to get a new job next year, more than two-thirds cited health care costs as a major reason.

The first months of 2014 aren’t shaping up to give Obamacare any better publicity than the last months of 2013. At Wonkblog, Sarah Kliff highlights one issue that she says is likely to make Americans “furious” even if it will also lower costs: narrow networks.This is what happens when you try to control costs by tinkering with insurance plans and coverage requirements—or even rate setting. Instead of imposing network changes on people who don’t want them, we should be thinking about how to change the structure of care delivery such that basic services are cheaper and health care is more convenient for everyone.

Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is visiting Lebanon this week, and he had some contradictory announcements to make. First, Zarif paid his respects and laid a wreath at the tomb of his fallen comrade Imad Mughniyeh in Beirut. Mughniyeh was a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed in 2008 by a car bomb of unknown origin. He is deemed responsible for orchestrating the 1983 bombings of the US Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed hundreds of Americans. Zarif then met with Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Hezbollah, and several other Lebanese government officials before giving a press conference. At the press conference, he announced Iran’s commitment to “combatting terrorism,” which is a “dangerous phenomenon” that requires “international cooperation.”

New data is out on the 2.2 million people who signed up for insurance by the first signup deadline (December 24th), and the pool is much older than the general uninsured population. Insurers hoped that the percentage of non-elderly adults under 35 would be closer to 40 percent, rather than the 25 percent we actually see. Before this data came out, health care think tank the Kaiser Family Foundation insurers hoped that the percentage of non-elderly adults under 35 would be closer to 40 percent, rather than the 25 percent we actually see. said that it would be a “worst-case scenario” if only 25 percent of non-elderly enrollees were in the 18-34 age group by the end of open enrollment on March 31st of this year.

Fish too much, and you get fewer fish. That’s neither new nor surprising, but a new study suggests that overfishing’s depletion of fish populations can have permanent effects.

Detroit may be able to keep its priceless art collection after all. In what is being called a “grand bargain,” the bankruptcy judge is allowing foundations to purchase the art from the city, moving it to a public trust that would keep the art on the walls. The city would use some of the proceeds from the sale to fund pension payments for retirees. So far, $330 million has already been pledged from various foundations, but the art is valued at $866 million, and time is running out to seal the deal.

PhD reform was a hot topic at the recent MLA convention last weekend, yet speaker after speaker managed to avoid the obvious fix: shrinking the size of their programs. But while professors are burying their heads in the sand, a number of schools are already beginning to cut back.

After the Volcker Rule was passed in December, there was much misplaced rejoicing. The real issues behind the successful regulation of banks are only now being debated.

Melting polar ice is thrusting the Arctic Circle into the geopolitical limelight. The frigid region is estimated to contain nearly a third of the world’s undiscovered natural gas and 15 percent of its undiscovered oil, and the Arctic countries—Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, and, thanks to Alaska, the United States—are eying those resources as they jockey for position. But thawing ice will also expose new shipping lanes, and nations like the United States will have new responsibilities to keep those routes safe for commerce.

Israel faces graver threats these days than inane resolutions drafted by misguided academics. But the Modern Language Association’s recent panel on boycotting Israel and its impending vote to condemn the Jewish state is, like the ASA’s recent boycott, part of a larger trend that should be resisted.