When it comes to Detroit, much of the nation’s attention is focused on the bankruptcy case which is expected to be decided on by a judge early next week. But over at City Journal, Steven Malanga asks the question (h/t Megan McArdle) that is likely to persist as more and more cities go through bankruptcy: […]

In a sign that definitely won’t reassure the American people, the White House this week cancelled its own Affordable Care Act enrollment push, and is asking some of its health care allies to pull back on promoting Obamacare over the next few weeks. The New York Times has more: Administration officials said Tuesday that they […]

On the sixth day of anti-government demonstrations in Thailand, hundreds of protestors broke open the front gate of the army headquarters and forced their way inside. They appealed to the army for support and later withdrew without a fight. Yesterday the current prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of former prime minister and divisive leader Thaksin […]

Beijing is refusing to back down in the dispute over its newly-declared Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea. Dozens of American, Japanese, and South Korean aircraft have since passed through the ADIZ on what officials called standard exercises. At first China said only that it had monitored the flights from afar; today, […]

Detroit won’t hear from a court whether it is allowed to enter bankruptcy until early next week, but its numerous creditors are already working to divide the city’s assets. On Tuesday, a group of creditors comprising an unusual mix of financial institutions and city unions, asked the court to create a new commission to value […]

The Music Teachers National Association, a Cincinnati nonprofit founded in 1876 to advance music study, apparently had language buried in their by-laws encouraging members not to poach students from each other. At some point in the last year, this fact became known to the Federal Trade Commission, and in March they opened up an investigation of the […]

Was your Thanksgiving dinner yesterday organic? If so, you paid a premium for food that likely was no healthier for you and wasn’t better for the environment. Physician Henry Miller outlines the case for non-organic food over at Project Syndicate: A 2012 meta-analysis of data from 240 studies concluded that organic fruits and vegetables were, on average, no more […]

Thanksgiving day saw the NYT reeling in shock as yet another major Obamacare meltdown looms. One key way the Affordable Care Act was supposed to expand access to health insurance was through relaxing eligibility restrictions for Medicaid: the CBO predicted that nine million people will gain coverage through the Medicaid expansion this year alone.But there’s […]

 Reading and writing about the Syria crisis day-in and day-out largely in terms of geopolitics, it can be easy to lose sight of the grievous human toll extracted by this brutal conflict. Stories like this one, describing the plight Syrian refugee children living in Turkey, help correct that blind-spot: The biggest ethnic group among those […]

Israel’s thriving science and technology sector looked to be shut out of a massive $95 billion EU-funded grants program starting next year, due to EU restrictions on funding going to organizations with a presence in the West Bank. Members of Netanyahu’s coalition dug their heels in over the EU’s demands earlier this summer, and talks […]