Winter for Higher-Ed
Colleges Trying Everything—Except Cutting Costs

American colleges are aggressively courting foreign students, who, it just so happens, are more likely than American students to pay full price for tuition. Schools are trying everything to improve their financial prospects—everything except look for ways to cut costs.

ACA Fail Fractal
Was Obamacare the Big Loser in FL-13?

The special election in Florida was a huge blow to ACA optimists, but spinning out an entire narrative about Obamacare’s demise from one data point is misguided.

Red Terror
Maoist Insurgency Rocks Indian Heartland

China and Pakistan usually get most of the attention when it comes to evaluating India’s prospects. It’s sometimes easy to forget that a Maoist insurgency is raging within the country’s heartland. The internal fighting could grow even worse during next month’s elections.

An American Success Story
America Is Widening the Fracking Gap

America isn’t just fracking more these days; it’s fracking better. By continuing to innovate and increase drilling efficiencies, the U.S. is keeping the shale boom going and widening its lead over the rest of the world.

Fixing the Schools
Stuff Learned Trumps Time Served

“Competency-based learning” programs, which allow students to advance based on what they’ve learned rather than their age, are gaining ground at the K–12 level.

The Limits of Health Policy
Health Care Among the Disaffiliated Digital Natives

Social capital is dangerously low among Millennials. The knock-on effects on health care could be enormous.

bad neighbors
Japan Won’t Retract Comfort Women Apology

“We have no intention to rethink the Kono Statement,” the Japanese government announced yesterday. Some of the more fiery right-wingers in Tokyo will be disappointed.

The Modern Condition
How to Live in a (Supposedly) Secular Age

The relation between modernity and faith is often perceived and presented as an epic struggle. But it’s actually not that difficult to be a modern person and hold on to one’s faith.

Death of Blue
Moving Beyond Unions

Federal law prohibits all non-union forms of employee-management relations. In this day and age, that just doesn’t make any sense. As Volkswagen’s employees showed at the new auto plant in Chattanooga, there are plenty of workers who want to communicate with management but don’t want to join a union.

Wrath of Khan
Imran’s Party Calls Itself "Liberal"

Imran Khan is looking to shed his “Taliban Khan” image by softening his pro-negotiation stance and rebranding his party as a “liberal, nationalist party.” Will it work?

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