ACA Fail Fractal
Dispatch From the Obamacare Frontline

One Via Meadia reader navigating the ACA’s health insurance exchange finds that a recent salary increase will boost his insurance costs to more than twice the amount of the raise.

E Pluribus Unum
The Growth of a European Politics

Why Podemos working with Syriza is a pro-EU sign.

Crude Economics
China Guzzles Oil

China is enjoying a buyer’s market, as it fills its strategic petroleum reserves at a record pace.

Boko Haram on the March
West Africa’s Refugee Problem

Boko Haram’s recent attacks in Baga and elsewhere have created 20,000 refugees in only two weeks. Those displaced will stretch the resources of Nigeria’s fragile neighbors who already face Boko Haram raids of their own.

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Ideological Hybrids
Environmentalists, Roaming Wolves, and Pope Francis

Is Francis greening? As well as moving to the Left? I’m beginning to worry.

After Charlie Hebdo
Paris Is Worth a Mass

Is it right that Paris gets a mass rally while Boko Haram’s slaughter of thousands in Nigeria merits hardly a shrug? No. But it’s the response Paris and Nigeria both deserve. This is what civilization looks like.

Reforming Delivery
Trading Hospitals for Smartphones

Here’s one vivid picture of how smartphones could change how we do health care. The sooner, the better.

Fleeing the Purge
Wealthy Chinese Head for Greener Pastures

China’s super-rich are fleeing Xi Jinping’s purge by paying for pricey investors’ visas to the UK.

After Charlie Hebdo
Can Europe Find a Way to Discuss Integration?

After Hebdo and the PEGIDA marches, is there a leader who can plot a middle course?

Unchanging Egypt
Sisi’s Return to Business as Usual

Three court rulings mark a new, old tone.

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