Hundreds of armed Turkish Kurds have entered Syria to save a Syrian Kurdish stronghold from ISIS. Meanwhile, the Iraqi Kurdish leader is in Ankara to talk independence and oil with Erdogan.

The NYT is finally admitting that the main goal of the ACA—expanding access—won’t bring down the costs of our health care system. If only we had heard this four years ago.

Radio Free Europe has published a fascinating interview with an Armenian volunteer sent by Russia to eastern Ukraine to fight as a separatist. It’s a fascinating look inside Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

Cheap nuclear power and 24/7 Russian propaganda piped into your country: what’s not to like?

As if the college debt crisis wasn’t scary enough already, a rash of complaints nationwide indicate that settlement agencies are pushing vulnerable, broke grads even deeper into debt.

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for bombings yesterday in the port city of Lagos, in Nigeria’s Christian, oil-rich south.

A Paris mob attacked a synagogue when an anti-Israel march got out of hand on Sunday. Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in France and across Europe.

The ACA debate often produces more heat than light. One way of improving it is to produce a list of metrics that allow us to evaluate whether the law is working.

As Iraq disintegrates, minorities are praising the impartial protection of the Kurdish peshmerga. Meanwhile, Iraq’s central government has been accused of massacring Sunni prisoners.

Eying an increasingly assertive China and a troubled Pakistan, Indian PM Modi moves to expand the country’s military budget. As he promised on the campaign trail, he’s making India’s foreign policy more “muscular.”