Deadline Disaster
US Biofuel Boondoggle Is Bureaucracy at Its Worst

The EPA is pushing the deadline for refiners to comply with last year’s biofuel targets back even further. This is bureaucracy as its worst.

Obamacare Fail
The ACA Is in a Total PR Free-fall

A new poll, taken in the midst of a string of neutral or positive media coverage, shows undecideds breaking against the ACA. Obamacare may be losing the war of attrition.

Gassing Up
It's Been a "Good Week" for US LNG

Two proposed LNG export facilities—one in Oregon and one in Texas—received federal approval this week, a sign of shale’s transformational power.

ACA Fail Fractal
Top Florida Insurer to Increase Premiums by 17 Percent

Florida Blue will raise its premiums for ACA plans by an average of 17.6 percent next year, after at least four years of increases of over 11 percent. The Affordable Care Act is doing nothing to address underlying factors making our system more unsustainable every year.

Game of Thrones
Japan to Give Coast Guard Ships to Vietnam

Japan has offered Vietnam six of its coast guard ships, lightly used, to bulk up Hanoi’s patrol fleet. As China races ahead in expanding its naval capabilities, its neighbors are banding together to balance it.

CIA Spies on Senate
The Dangers of Obama’s Intel Mismanagement

As John Brennan apologized to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his staff spying on them, yet another failure of the Obama administration to manage its intel agencies soundly is coming into focus. It couldn’t be happening at a worse time.

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In Their Own Words
Why They Fight: Hamas’ Too-Little-Known Fascist Charter

As the Gaza conflict rolls on, the Western press has virtually ignored Hamas’s 1988 “Covenant,” which precisely details the terror group’s radical anti-Semitism and intellectual debt to Nazi ideology.

What Rankles Russia
Putin’s Energy Weapon Cuts Both Ways

Russia’s over-reliance on oil and gas exports for its budget revenues makes it vulnerable to the ups and downs of energy markets.

Prices Prices Prices
The U.S. Health Care System: The Global Sugar Daddy

A burgeoning controversy over an especially expensive new drug highlights how much the U.S. underwrites medical innovation for the whole world. Somehow, that never seems to make it into popular conversations about how inferior our system is.

The Great Inequality Debate
The "Mormon Solution" to Poverty?

Religious affiliation can do a lot to instill habits that prevent poverty and inequality. Realizing this allows us to offer a more holistic account of poverty and its possible solutions.

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