The trickle of Democrats getting shifty about Obamacare is quickly becoming a flood. Yesterday leading Democrats spent an hour at a senatorial lunch grilling President Obama’s Chief of Staff about the rollout of the health care law. Some were upset that the administration is paying for its publicity efforts with money from the Prevention and Public Health […]

The EU’s ongoing crisis is chipping away at the continent’s unity and extracting a terrible toll on a generation of workers in the Eurozone’s periphery. But less frequently noticed is how membership in the EU has lost its cachet. Although Balkan countries are still chomping at the bit to be let in (note the recent […]

Though the Western media has moved on, things remain tense on the Korean peninsula. Today South Korea withdrew all of its workers from Kaesong, the industrial park jointly operated by the North and the South. The NYT reports: The decision came hours after North Korea rejected South Korea’s proposal for talks on the future of the […]

Shinzo Abe is not backing down. Responding to China and South Korea’s protests over Japanese lawmakers visiting a controversial shrine in Tokyo, Abe made an inflammatory speech that’s sure to further anger the neighbors. With emotions running high over visits by members of his cabinet to a wartime memorial, Mr. Abe stoked passions further by […]

As the United States weighs its options in Syria over Assad’s use of chemical weapons, the violence in Iraq is flaring up into what increasingly looks like open warfare. Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook Suleiman Beg, a Sunni town north of Baghdad earlier today, after being driven out of town by gunmen yesterday, the […]

Spring is the time of year when many parents turn to the least enjoyable part of the process of sending children off to college: taking out loans. If you want to contribute to your child’s education by taking out a government loan, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a few words of warning:  Borrowing programs designed to help parents […]

The biggest question mark over Ron Paul has always been his affinity for unsavory wack jobs on the fringes of American politics, but these days he’s turning that question mark into an exclamation point. The Daily Beast reports that the ex-Texas Congressman is creating the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, a think tank concerned […]

Yesterday members of the House of Representatives grilled the founder of the failing electric car company Fisker Automotive. The Department of Energy announced in 2009 that they would be loaning Fisker Automotive $529 million, part of a raft of loans made to car companies intent on producing fuel-efficient and electric vehicles. But now, four years […]

Welcome to Pakistan’s Punjab region, where 55 (!) men charged with various terrorist activities have been allowed to run for elected office. Amir Mir at The News has the story: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has simply failed to prevent 55 candidates from the Punjab, belonging to 10 different sectarian groups, from contesting the […]

A little less than a year ago an ASEAN summit collapsed in disarray when China-allied Cambodia scuttled all attempts to discuss how to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea. This year, with the tiny kingdom of Brunei holding the revolving ASEAN chairmanship, developing a “code of conduct” for disputed areas is priority number […]