Higher Ed has added an average of 87 administrative positions per day, a rate has scarcely slowed since the economic downturn, despite tuition increases.

Biofuels were sold as a renewable, non-emitting energy source, when on balance the anachronistic energy source does more harm to the environment than good.

Everything you thought you knew about mammograms is wrong. The fundamental truth emerging from recent work on the US health care system is that health, health care, and health insurance are all three different things

American unions have just suffered one of their best setbacks in recent years. Yesterday the workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant rejected unionization with the United Auto Workers. What is stunning is that the company, Volkswagen, supported the unionization drive, in part because Germany’s powerful car workers’ union pressured management to do so.

It is rare that American diplomacy is conducted this poorly for so long a period of time. President Obama more than anything else needs to get to grips with the reality that his basic strategic choices aren’t working out.

American exceptionalism is in retreat, and the centralized national security state is to blame.

A riot broke out in the Indian parliament on Thursday as politicians literally fought over the creation of India’s newest state, Telangana. An MP brought and used pepper spray, causing pandemonium and prompting the House Speaker to suspend 17 MPs.

Doctors are fleeing private practices for the security of hospitals. The exodus will be a disaster for U.S. health care.

The glitter of the Sochi spectacle hides the reality of an empire in decline. Is Putin’s profligacy hastening Russia’s nosedive?

The Syria talks are close to failing after Russian negotiators explicitly refused to discuss the prospect of removing Butcher Assad from the Syrian government. Already embarassingly close to achieving next to nothing, the talks might now end completely if UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi deems it “useless” to continue.