Colorado has released its first study on the state’s legal pot market. Demand is far greater than expected, and is concentrated among a small group of heavy users.

The surge of unaccompanied children attempting to cross the border is being driven by the apparently widespread belief that they’ll be allowed to remain in the U.S. The numbers, unfortunately, support this perception: many minors are ordered to be sent home, but the actual number of deportations remains much lower.

Libyan oil output is slowly recovering, but supply risks abound there and in Iraq, as well. Things would be a lot worse without America’s shale revolution.

Turkey has already voiced support for an independent Iraqi Kurdistan, and recently took yet another important step toward making peace with its Kurdish population.

China and Russia are making power plays in Latin America, and Argentina’s debt problems may provide an opening.

An Australian judge has predicted that incest will soon be as acceptable as homosexuality, arguing that the risk of birth abnormalities is no longer a threat due to access to abortion and contraception.

The Iraqi Prime Minister accused the Kurds of harboring ISIS terrorists, in the latest of a series of ugly speeches. But there’s nothing Baghdad can do to prevent an independent Kurdistan.

Licensing regulations are keeping small businesses down and entrepreneurs out of important sectors. We need to grease the wheels of the service economy, not erect barriers in front of it.

A new study changed the way doctors were paid, and it significantly lowered the overall cost of the treatment they offered—but the researchers can’t figure out how. Technocratic tinkering, it seems, isn’t very useful when it comes to reining in health care spending.

China is reforming its judicial system, ostensibly to rein in corruption, but it’s also another piece in a puzzle suggesting that Xi is battening down the hatches and centralizing control.