A new office in the Treasury will take a look at public pensions, while at the same time promoting infrastructure bonds. Should this make us nervous?

The USAF is using a mid-1950s model to recruit and retain 21st-century personnel, a new report recognizes. But has it faced up to how difficult, and how necessary, reform will be?

A new experiment shows that health care price transparency saves consumers money and reduces price variation.

The pace of hospital consolidating is picking up in NYC, in a trend driven by ACA requirements. As more hospitals consolidate in order to maximize their advantage in bargaining with insurers, rates will only continue to rise.

Gas production in the Marcellus shale formation is booming, producing more than seven times the amount of gas per day than it did just four short years ago.

Pakistan is working to buy helicopters from Russia, in an arms deal that has little precedence. But this shift in Cold War-era alliances (Pakistan with the U.S., India with Russia) is only the latest reminder that geopolitics is in flux all over the world.

Germany has nixed an arms deal with Russia, to Moscow’s predictable fury. Meanwhile, European sanctions aren’t quite having the desired impact, and Russia is massing even more troops at the Ukrainian border.

The first U.S.-Africa Summit, now in session, will discuss strategic responses to the growing threat of terrorism on the continent. But despite its involvement in many African countries, the U.S. is still searching for a strategy.

Young Americans are increasingly skipping the university computer science degree and learning the trade at vocational coding schools.

The fine print of a recent Egyptian ceasefire proposal underscores the strange new alliance of interests emerging in the Middle East.