Reforming Delivery
What We Should Do Next on Health Care

After SCOTUS’s ruling on Obamacare, here is where our health care conversation needs to go—and how we will know if reforms are working

SCOTUS Raisin Ruling
The Producerist Bias

The New Deal policies that stacked the deck for producers are increasingly outmoded. It’s time to re-think more than just the raisin reserve.

The Nuclear Negotiations
Ex-Admin Officials Disown Iran Deal

This is not what the cusp of success usually looks like.

Money Talks
Save Alex—and Ditch Ulysses

Our bills are not just means of exchange, but memorials. Leave Alex where he belongs.

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What Greece Means
It’s Past Time for a Pivot to Europe

Many Americans developed a view in the first decade of this century that Europe was no longer a priority for our diplomacy. We were very wrong.

Tax Increase
Red Dawn Flickers in Kansas

Kansas increases taxes in a bow to fiscal reality. A better plan for future state-level reformers—reform government first, then cut taxes?

The Oldest Hatred
Madrid’s Newest Cultural Program: Anti-Semitism?

Madrid’s new radical leftist government is off to a flying start, with its culture minister tweeting an anti-Semitic joke. Its economy minister will be better at his job…right?

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The Future
The Transportation Revolution Is Coming

Leaps in technology are moving us toward a revolution in transportation. But to predict how this will change society, we need to look beyond the automotive industry.

Hope is not a Plan
Obama’s Grave Miscalculations

As the consequences of errors made in the quieter years before 2012 have begun to take their toll, and the significant misjudgments and missteps made since the election have added to the chaos, President Obama is in danger of the achieving the least successful track record in foreign policy of any American president, bar none.

The Dem Divide
Blue Civil War, Gotham Edition

New York’s fight over stricter rent control regulations is a snapshot of a nationwide trend: states moving right as cities lean left.

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