It’s so unfair! Botch the public rollout of your most important domestic political program, fail to reform the VA after campaigning on a promise to do exactly that, and then make serial misjudgments about world affairs that see Russia launch a war against Ukraine even as the U.S. goes back into Iraq—and your opponents decide to make political hay out of it!

The first patient to have fallen sick of Ebola in the United States was admitted to a hospital in Dallas. It’s difficult at times like these not to feel like you’ve woken up during the opening scenes of some awful disaster movie.

“The old template for peace must be updated”, the Israeli Prime Minister said, citing the growing alignment between the Sunni states and the Jewish one.

In a health care system as dysfunctional as ours, Obamacare’s coverage expansions are beginning to seem purely symbolic. Three recent stories highlight how the law is making it harder to access care the plans will cover.

In 2003, construction began on a massive LNG import terminal near Sabine Pass, Texas. Now, that facility’s investors are opening up their checkbooks again to turn the terminal into one suitable for exports.

There may be good reasons to close down Guantanamo, but that’s no simple task, and the both President and the country have more urgent problems.

Adam Garfinkle is participating in an Ask Me Anything on reddit today at 2pm EDT. He’ll be fielding questions about the Syrian conflict. Stop by and ask questions!

A new poll finds that Americans who stay informed about politics believe the world has gotten more complicated over the last decade. Gentry liberals try to explain this away by accusing partisans like the Koch brothers of willfully distorting what are in truth simple matters. But it is far more reasonable to be confused during this age of uncertainty and anxiety than to believe that everything is crystal clear.

Ruth Wedgwood: I’m here today to interview Judge Mark Wolf, who is a distinguished district judge on the federal bench in Massachusetts, and has been on the bench for a very long time. He has taken the lead in pronouncing some quite sparky views on how we should fight corruption, particularly international corruption. He was […]

Call it for what it is: an old fashioned party purge. 250,000 communist officials have been caught up so far in a massive effort to impose central control on local officials, with signs now that the purge could be catching Chinese diplomats in its sweep.