Just when you thought the blue states couldn’t get any bluer, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo moves his state a deeper shade on the color chart. From the NYT: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who spent his first two years in office establishing himself as a fiscal conservative, turned left in his third annual address to the […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron will soon be laying out plans for a referendum of the extent of the UK’s presence in the EU. Obviously President Obama won’t have an official ballot in that referendum, but his administration has already let it be known that America isn’t happy about the possibility of a British withdrawal. According […]

Blue states have borne the brunt of the pension crisis sweeping the country, but red states are feeling the pain too. Louisville’s Courier-Journal reports that the mayors of Kentucky’s two largest cities are calling on Frankfort to overhaul their state’s pension system: Pension costs now eat up about 15 percent of Louisville’s general fund budget—up from […]

American onshoring keeps rolling along, and the latest good news is the boost homegrown manufacturing is getting from big data. Improvements in data collection and analysis have made forward-looking firms more agile and able to react quickly to fluctuations in market demand or supply. So far, the U.S. seems best qualified to take advantage of […]

Western consumers have gotten used to seeing “made in China” printed on many of their daily purchases, but there are many items the Chinese themselves would prefer not to bear that label—baby food, for one: A surge in sales of one of Australia’s most popular brands of infant formula has led to an unusual sight […]

California is already one of the most dysfunctional states in the Union; now it is set to become one of the oldest and most childless as well. According to the WSJ, the state’s population numbers are in steep decline: In 1970, six years after the end of the baby boom, children made up more than one-third […]

On December 29, 2012, the New York Times carried an article by Samuel Freedman, who is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and who regularly writes in the religion column of the Times. The article is entitled “In a Crisis, Humanists seem Absent”. It dealt with the strong religious […]

Many wondered how the Iraqi government would survive after the last U.S. troops left the country. Thus far, the signs are mixed: Parliamentary institutions are working, sort of, but a lot of the political wrangling is taking place on the streets in the form of violence among militias rather than arguments among political factions.On the […]

China’s latest salvo in its conflict with Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea has struck a nerve. Japan, which has still not officially acknowledged that a territorial dispute even exists, summoned China’s ambassador before the Japanese Foreign Ministry on Tuesday after Chinese ships sashayed into Japanese-controlled waters for 13 hours. The New […]

“Pakistan’s continuing support of Operation Enduring Freedom has been critical to our success so far in toppling the Taliban and routing out the Al Qaeda network. Yet President Musharraf has made an even broader commitment. He has declared that Pakistan will be an enemy of terrorism and extremism wherever it exists, including inside his own […]