ACA supporters can bask in some good news for the troubled health care law for a change. But do the numbers hold up?

Alaskan state legislators have just over a month to keep the ball rolling on a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) project that would help bring America’s glut of natural gas to Asian markets.

Egypt’s economic outlook got a boost from Fitch, which upgraded its forecast from “negative” to “stable” for the first time since the 2011 revolution. But the big question of the moment is whether military chief (and future president?) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and his military colleagues can effectively keep the security situation from spiraling out of control.

China’s increased influence in Sri Lanka is bad news for India, which has grown estranged from its neighbor to the south. As India’s favor in Sri Lanka fades, China’s rises. That’s big news for the Asia’s grand geopolitical games.

An independent Scotland, it now appears, would not be able to keep the pound in a currency union with the UK and it would not be able to charge British university students higher tuition rates than other EU students. That throws two big monkey wrenches into the SNP’s case. Voters in the referendum on September 18 may just decide to stick with the devil they know.

Putin is the thorn in Obama’s side, the pebble in his slipper, the fly in his borscht. Whenever Washington seeks to get something productive done abroad, the Kremlin makes sure to drop a few banana peels on the road. A smart piece from Victor Davis Hanson over at the National Review makes a point about Putin that […]

Former two-term mayor of New Orleans and the face of its recovery from Katrina Ray Nagin has been found guilty on twenty charges of conspiracy, bribery and fraud. Like Detroit, New Orleans was the victim of an urban crime family masquerading as a political machine.

Banished from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews around the world may finally be seeing some indemnification. A new bill proposed in Spain promises the possibility of dual-citizenship for the Sephardic diaspora.

Rick Perry is enjoying more good news at California’s expense: Texas has surpassed California as America’s leading tech export state, partly because manufacturing costs are lower there. It’s mostly blue voters and officials who have been bemoaning the export of America’s factory jobs to China. But it’s our bluest state whose labor costs are so high that it can’t retain the manufacturing jobs its own tech sector creates.

Only 40 percent of New York City voters support Bill de Blasio’s plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for an expansion of pre-K programs, preferring Cuomo’s tax-free approach. Cuomo is beating de Blasio on his home turf.