For seven years, Republicans have yearned to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. Now that they have the chance, they seem wholly unprepared to do it right. Much work is still needed to figure out how to avoid destabilizing the health-insurance system. Yet, in their hurry, leaders in Congress seem to want to skip that part. What’s the rush? Republicans …

  It seems that the noise created over Russian hacking saga is not going to die down soon. The story that unravelled has the makings of a spy thriller. It all began in September 2015 with an FBI agent informing Democratic National Committee that FBI had identified a Russian-linked cyber-spy group in its network. It was followed by a Washington …

  “Give me 50 days, friends,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens after he canceled 86 percent of the country’s currency notes. After December 30, if Indians saw his decision as flawed, he promised to “suffer any punishment.” But, he said confidently, if they could bear 50 days of disruption, they would have the “India of their dreams.” It …