Americans still rank student loans as their greatest financial problem well into their forties.

Granting preferential admissions to universities on the basis of race is impermissible if not unconstitutional. That is the correct decision the Supreme Court made this week. That does not mean, of course, that we shouldn’t try to address both racial and class discrimination in higher education.

Recent piracy in the Strait of Malacca is a reminder of the fragility of some of the world’s most important energy trading routes. American hydrocarbon exports would be largely unconstrained by such vulnerabilities, and would bolster international energy security.

The stress of fast-paced, polluted urban life in China has pushed waves of the country’s middle class to pick up and move abroad. The country’s growth-at-all-costs policy risks producing something of a brain drain.

Decades of demonizing failure have turned America into a nation of cowards and outcasts. Risk-taking, successful or not, is vital to a resilient society.

VA residents have shifted from majority support for the Medicaid expansion to majority opposition. This swing spells trouble for the ACA.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned Russia in no uncertain terms over the Ukraine crisis. By doing so, she is moving away from Germany’s longtime policy of non-interference with the former Soviet bloc.

As if 3D printers don’t have enough wow factor, imagine them in the service of humanitarian causes. A team of innovators in Los Angeles, for instance, uses them to make prosthetic limbs for African children.

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?

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