The Pentagon may soon be trimming its workforce. What if the private sector isn’t ready to receive the veterans who will soon be looking for work? A new poll shows vets are anxious about this very question. The Washington Post reports: Among the most striking findings of the Veterans’ Employment Challenges study, released last week, […]

It’s currently illegal for Western universities to establish their own campuses on Indian soil, but this doesn’t mean that these schools aren’t finding ways to reach Indian students.In an innovative educational practice dubbed “twinning,” Western and Indian universities are teaming up to give Indian students new course offerings at an affordable price: Twinning, where participants […]

Western expertise in fracking is already well on its way to sparking an energy revolution in America. Can it do the same for an energy-hungry China?Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell Oil is determined to find out. In March, Shell secured contracts to co-produce shale gas in China and has pledged to invest at least $1 billion […]

There cannot be two other religious traditions whose historical relations have been as awful as those between Judaism and Christianity. For centuries Jews suffered discrimination and persecution in countries that defined themselves as Christian, culminating in the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust (while the Nazi ideology which legitimated the latter was anything but Christian, it […]

A fascinating piece in last Sunday’s New York Times provided a clear picture of how automation is changing the world: This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the […]

By Chris MeadWhat is real?Is it our sometimes harried daily lives, or is it what we sometimes see when we leave town or otherwise shake up our routine? I’m at the beach with my family trying to make sense of things.The trouble began on day one of vacation, Friday. A Wall Street Journal reporter had […]

The dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands continues, and Bruce Einhorn, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Asia bureau chief, explains why China may not be holding as many cards as some Western observers—and Chinese patriots—think: With a major leadership transition due to take place at the upcoming Communist Party congress, the last thing China’s rulers […]

Believe it or not, it’s come to this: A doctor from Hesse filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg, who serves in the community of Hof, in Upper Franconia (northern Bavaria), according to the Juedische Allgemeine weekly newspaper. The chief prosecutor of Hof confirmed that charges had been filed against the rabbi. The charges […]

After provocative messages on social networking sites incited communal tensions in India’s northeast, New Delhi is calling on Washington for help. The Times of India reports: India will seek US’ help in tracking down the origins of offensive web pages hosted on American servers which have been used to inflame Muslim sentiments here.The decision to seek the help of […]

Earlier this month, the State Department released a statement criticizing Beijing’s recent moves in the South China Sea. In an insightful reaction to this statement, Douglass H. Paal explains why Americans would be mistaken to view America’s Asia policy as a binary choice between confrontation and appeasement of China: Today, the South China Sea is not at […]