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the price of healthcare
Obamacare Is Still Failing

The thing that is slowly killing Obamacare is the same thing that is making it so hard for the GOP to come up with an alternative: American health care costs too much.

The Plastic Problem
How to Make Recycling a Business

A UK company has figured out how to recycle plastic back into usable oil.

China's Big Money Diplomacy
One Belt, One Road, One Boondoggle?

Xi Jinping’s ambitious infrastructure push is off to a slow and troubled start.

Sad!
Putin’s Isolation on Display at Victory Day

International media like to portray Putin’s maneuvering in Ukraine and Syria as having wrested him a seat at the big boys’ table. But in truth, his corrupt regime has fewer and fewer friends around the world.

chaos
Is the Comey Firing Proof of a Smoking Gun?

Given what we know right now, probably not. But that in no way diminishes the consequences Donal Trump’s decision will have, both within the United States and beyond our borders.

Blue Civil War
Blue Civil War in California as State Jacks Up Traffic Fines

As the blue model becomes fiscally unsustainable, the political coalition that holds it together will come under strain as well.

The Fight Against ISIS
Snubbing Turkey, Trump Backs the Kurds

The Pentagon announces that it will supply heavy weapons to Kurdish forces in north Syria to take Raqqa.

Petrostate Problems
OPEC Has a Libya-Sized Headache

Oil production is once again on the rise in Libya.

The Persecution Rests
A Dark Day for Pluralism in Indonesia

Jailing a Christian governor for blasphemy sends a chilling signal about the future of Indonesia.

Asia's Game of Thrones
Moon Wins in South Korea

But will he bring the Sunshine?

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