The price of crude oil has declined significantly in recent months, in part because of a flood of new supplies from the shale-rich United States. Low prices spell trouble for petrostates, including Russia.

Politico gathered together 15 top health care policymakers and wonks to suggest ways to improve or fix Obamacare, one year after the law’s implementation. Some aired helpful ideas, but on the whole the pundit class still lacks a big vision about market-driven reform of service delivery.

Germany has so few planes working that it might have to bring troops stranded in Afghanistan home with Angela Merkel’s jet.

Yet another study has confirmed what we should already have known: people respond to price signals. That making prices transparent isn’t one of the highest priorities in health care reform is unfathomable.

Shells land in downtown Donetsk for the first time since the ceasefire was signed, as Russian-backed separatists appeared to make progress against pro-Kiev forces holding the airport.

Countries that hope to revise the world order draw inspiration from each other—so it was when Britain ruled the waves, and so it is today for the U.S. With the Chinese lionizing “Putin the Great” for his anti-Western actions in Europe, one cannot help but shudder at what Beijing may think it has learned.

Leaders in the Catalonia secession movement have agreed to obey a court injunction against the proposed November referendum, suspending for the time being any campaigning on behalf of it. This move defuses an immediate constitutional crisis, but Catalonia’s determination to keep pushing on means the detente might be temporary.

A ruling in California could have serious implications for public pension systems across the country.

Under Saudi management, the holiest sight in Islam is being swamped by concrete – and the Turks are not happy.

Russia is digging in its heels in the Crimean peninsula by announcing a big naval expansion. That’s probably not playing well in Ankara.