[Note to readers: Via Meadia is going to experiment with a “Week In Review” on Sundays. We’ll highlight the most popular posts, give updates from the Team, and comment on the biggest developments in global politics from the past week.]Last Sunday we published Occupy Blue Wall Street, which analyzed the breakup of the blue coalition […]

The always valuable Glenn Reynolds alerts readers to an important story in the Wall Street Journal: “My Teacher is an App.” It turns out that technology is transforming the American educational experience far faster than most of us knew. From the Journal: In a radical rethinking of what it means to go to school, states […]

Dennis Ross, the longtime maestro of American efforts to build peace between Israel and the Palestinians, is stepping down. He follows George Mitchell, Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East, who threw in the towel in May. The two resignations underline what is already clear: there isn’t much left of the White House’s peace strategy.  […]

Andrew Sullivan has a reputation in some circles for overreacting to current events, and here at Via Meadia we’ve challenged what seems to us an overwrought fear of creeping “Christianism” that from time to time pops up on his blog.But when it comes to the EU, Sullivan has sang froid in spades, writing that “My […]

India’s banking sector may be hitting a wall. Moody’s certainly thinks so: the ratings agency downgraded India to “negative” earlier this week. A Moody’s official announced: India’s economic momentum is slowing because of high inflation, monetary tightening, and rapidly rising interest rates. At the same time, concerns have emerged over the sustainability of the recovery […]

Many Republicans greeted the 2010 election results with glee, but there was a sting in the tail.  From November 2008 for the next two years, Democrats ran the whole Washington show, and Speaker Pelosi et. al. were in the country’s face every day, reminding everyone in American just why the Democrats are so awful.Then came […]

The long running Syrian melodrama, one in which nobody knows the endgame, continues to unfold.  Butcher Assad has essentially won the battle to control Syria’s streets.  He has also staved off any chance of international military intervention at least for now.Today’s Arab League vote suspending Syria’s membership illustrates Assad’s isolation but is of little importance […]

The furor over fracking aside, the large environmental controversy du jour is the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry “dirty” fuel from the Canadian tar sands to waiting markets and refineries in the U.S. The past few months have seen the administration vacillate repeatedly on the issue, and it has just announced that it […]

Vincent Charpentier works at a French institute for “preventive archaeology,” whatever that is, but apparently has enough time on his hands to go after the world’s most beloved ancient Gauls, the Asterix and Obelix whose adventures fill a series of comic books that helped generations of schoolchildren improve their French.Real Gauls, say the pedantic spoilsports […]

Tensions are rising again between Israel and Iran. The Islamic Republic has greeted Israel’s open discussion of attacks on its nuclear sites with a barrage of threats of violent retaliation. The Washington Post reports: Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday warned Israel and the United States that any attack on the country’s controversial nuclear program would […]