After a long-running dispute over unpaid bills, Gazprom finally acted on its threat to disrupt gas supplies to Ukraine today. Putin is busy turning the screws on Kiev—and on the West as well.

The Commonwealth Fund has put the U.S. last in its 2014 survey of first world health care systems. It’s yet another reminder that the ACA is no cure for the persistent flaws in our health care system.

As the Sunni group’s thrust toward Baghdad appears to have been slowed if not halted by Shiite militia streaming back from Syria, cracks appear to be forming in its coalition. The Obama administration should tread carefully.

Yet another sharp shard in a quickly fracturing world: Al-Qaeda has issued a call for Muslims in Kashmir to use Syria and Iraq as a model for fighting India. What’s the plan, Mr. President?

Greens rejoice! Car-sharing service Uber is not only making car ownership in metropolitan areas less necessary. It also appears to be spurring on the adoption and development of public transportation.

In a chat with 20-somethings who use Tumblr, President Obama warned them from entering the legal profession. Maybe this will finally get the attention of the law school presidents.

President Obama, Hilary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, and now even Pope Francis are expressing hopes that Scotland will remain a part of the United Kingdom.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a new strain of the Spanish flu that is even deadlier than the original. They say it’s to stay ahead of natural flu evolutions, but we all know how this ends.

“Patent trolls”, which exist solely to sue productive companies for patent infringement, are becoming a major threat to tech innovation in the United States.

Butlers have become the face of the new service economy. But their lives are more complicated than many suggest, and the jobs of the future will likely be far more fluid and flexible.