Is the “Egyptian Jon Stewart” Whistling in the Dark?

As Egypt’s Islamists surge and its currency sinks, a Jon Stewart-like TV comedian is mixing it up with many of the country’s religious sheiks: As a new Constitution engraves Islam ever more firmly into Egyptian law, a young comic’s escalating battle with a group of ultraconservative television sheiks has become an early skirmish over the […]

Death Spiral For the Egyptian Pound?

Egyptians have lived through two years of instability and revolution. Recently, they’ve faced a new menace: a crash in the Egyptian pound. Not only is the local money losing value; when crowds of panicky Egyptians stormed to the banks and money changers looking to switch pounds for dollars and euros, supplies of foreign currency ran […]

Higher Ed Bubble: WaPo Gets It

To see where the discussion on higher ed reform is going, look this piece from editorial writer Charles Lane in the Washington Post. At the University of Minnesota, the number of employees with “human resources” or “personnel” in their job titles has grown from 180 to 272 since the 2004-05 academic year. Since 2006, the […]

This Looks Like A Loophole

The Obama administration issued long expected guidelines about the implementation of the health care law yesterday, and if this NY Times report has it right, a huge loophole in the new law could leave millions of Americans still uninsured.The issue?As the IRS apparently interprets the law, employers with more than 50 workers are required to […]

Yule Blog 2012-13: One For All

Back in the beginning of the Christmas season, I wrote about the way the gospel Christmas narratives “roll the credits” by giving genealogical tables that link Jesus to Jewish history. In contemplating Christmas, we should never forget that the first Christmas was first and foremost a Jewish event. Mary, Joseph, the innkeeper, the shepherds, the […]

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