Licensing regulations are keeping small businesses down and entrepreneurs out of important sectors. We need to grease the wheels of the service economy, not erect barriers in front of it.

A new study changed the way doctors were paid, and it significantly lowered the overall cost of the treatment they offered—but the researchers can’t figure out how. Technocratic tinkering, it seems, isn’t very useful when it comes to reining in health care spending.

China is reforming its judicial system, ostensibly to rein in corruption, but it’s also another piece in a puzzle suggesting that Xi is battening down the hatches and centralizing control.

North Korea lodged a formal protest at the UN against a new Seth Rogen comedy about the assassination of Kim Jong-Un, calling it a “war action.”

The U.S. has been shocked over and over when Beijing says one thing and does another in the South China Sea. Now, at least, it looks like Washington has figured out China’s strategy.

The New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission threatened ride-share service Lyft with potentially crippling fines one day after it announced its arrival in the Big Apple. More competition would be better for all, not only between Uber and traditional taxi services, but between Uber and Lyft as well.

Ten people beat and chased a Swedish man for hanging an Israeli flag outside his window in the city of Malmö. Anti-Semitism is on the rise not only in Sweden but throughout Europe.

A California judge expresses skepticism about Calpers’ claim that it can fine Stockton if the city reduces its pension contributions. The fight isn’t over yet, but this can’t be a good sign for the pension fund.

A recent UN conference produced a number of different plans for tackling climate change, with a special focus on leveraging the increasing pace of technological progress to effect change. This is the kind of green thinking we’d like to see more of.

Illinois pension reform plans appear dead in the water after a State Supreme Court ruling yesterday. The blue model remains unshaken even as the state’s fiscal crisis deepens.