WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30: U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, speaks during a conference at the Ronald Reagan Building, October 30,2013 in Washington, DC. General Alexander spoke about Cybersecurity at a conference hosted by Bloomberg Government. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images.

From the day Obamacare was passed, Obama knew that getting the website up and running would be the key to the success of the law, and likely his presidency. Yet for the next two years, he and his team were completely unprepared for the task of actually getting it done, leaving us with the mess […]

The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, a think tank in Seoul, released a troubling new poll this week that found serious levels of agitation and distrust for Japan among South Koreans. The poll asked one thousand South Korean adults if they felt “militarily threatened” by Japan, and 62 percent said yes. The political relationship between the […]

Here’s a sentence that will make a green’s head spin: China needs to frack in order to clear its smoggy skies.That’s because burning coal is one of the biggest drivers of Chinese air pollution. As the Northern hemisphere bundles up for winter, Chinese urbanites are stocking up on face masks as more coal plants come […]

Pensioners and others near retirement living on the shoreline may be surprised to find that they’re insuring their own houses this hurricane season. That’s because many of pension funds they have their money with are beginning to invest heavily in catastrophe bonds in pursuit of higher returns. These kinds of bonds allow investors to collect money from disaster […]

While on his Eurotour earlier this fall – during which he visited France, Germany, Italy, and Romania – WRM gave an interview to Romanian TV station, Digi24, in Bucharest. The interview was conducted in English and covered everything from the civilizational differences of European nations to why WRM has given up trying to label himself: […]

Unde malum et quare? Where does evil come from and why does it exist? That has always been one of the big questions; over at Bloomberg News, former White House macher and Samantha Power super-spouse Cass Sunstein says he’s solved at least one part of the riddle: he’s figured out the from whence and why […]

Europe’s green policies have put it in the unenviable position of paying more money for dirtier energy. By subsidizing nascent green technologies like solar and wind, Europe has driven its electricity prices up sharply. At the same time, it’s started importing coal, a dirty energy source, from the US (we no longer need as much […]

How much does NYC have to fear from the impending de Blasio victory? The FT’s Christopher Caldwell, who also writes for the Weekly Standard, is comfortingly blasé. De Blasio only intends to raise taxes on people making more than $500,000 and he can’t even do that unless the legislature and the governor go along (they […]

At 600 feet tall it will be the world’s largest statue, taller than China’s Spring Temple Buddha, the current record holder, and twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York. But despite its impressiveness, the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, construction on which began Thursday, won’t avoid controversy.Patel was India’s first Home Minister after […]