News Analysis
ACA Fail Fractal
Obamacare Cancellations, Round Two

While the President and his team are busy spiking the football over the ACA’s success, another wave of insurance cancellations is coming. How hard will it hit?

You Are My Sunshine
Solar Panels in Outer Space

Take that, Solyndra: A Japanese firm plans to generate solar power using panels on satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

Deadly Disease
MERS Spreads to Greece

Last week the MERS virus turned up in South Asia; now it’s in Greece. Airports are a country’s weak points: One infected traveler can infect people in a nation thousands of miles away.

Pipeline Politics
Keystone XL More Popular Than Ever

Support for the Keystone pipeline is at an all-time high. Greens are failing to convince the public of the project’s faults, largely because the facts don’t support their case.

Misunderestimating The World
Obama Gets North Korea Wrong Too

Obama Administration policy on North Korea appears to be based on faulty ideas about what the Kim regime is willing to suffer to keep its nuclear weapons.

Getting Away Scot-Free?
Pensions Cloud Picture of Scottish Independence

Without the UK, Scotland would face huge pension liabilities. Things would not be as rosy for an independent Scotland as the SNP would have its fellow countrymen believe.

Indian Elections
Modi’s BJP Rolls On, But an Old Rival Looms

A formidable obstacle looms in Narendra Modi’s way on the road to the prime ministership, and her name is Jayalalitha. She can be an indispensable ally, or the cause of countless headaches.

Deadly Disease
Death Toll from Ebola Virus Climbs

More than 140 people have died of the virus so far in Africa, though the outbreak does not appear to have spread beyond Guinea and Liberia. While that’s mildly encouraging, in the age of globalization, a deadly virus can be only one airplane ride away from anyone on earth.

Stuff Learned Beats Time Served
Higher Education Gets "Competent"

Higher education is evolving slowly but surely, and one small school is giving its adult students credit for the skills they already have.

Journalism Under Fire
After Attack on Journalist, Pakistan’s Media Battles its Military

As tensions in Pakistan remain high due to Musharraf’s on-going trial, the country’s biggest TV station accused the intelligence agency of attacking a famous journalist. In response, the Defense Ministry demanded the channel be shut down.

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