Bad news for wind farms: the earth may have far less wind capacity than previously thought, according to a new study from professors at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Up to this point, most limits to wind power have centered on our inability to efficiently harness it, permit it, and site it. […]

Just two months in to the Kansas Red Dawn, doubts are being raised about the Tea Party dream. Though Republicans have total control of state politics, Governor Sam Brownback is facing resistance from disgruntled voters and a skeptical judiciary. The FT takes notice: A court ruled in January the government was underfunding education and ordered […]

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton India Economic Forum was set to feature Narendra Modi, the governor of Gujarat state in west India, as a keynote speaker. Yesterday, however, Modi’s speech was cancelled after students, teachers, and “multiple stakeholders” in the wider university community denounced him.“This is the same politician who was refused a diplomatic visa […]

Add Washington to the list of blue states with grossly underfunded public pension systems. A great new investigative piece in the Seattle Times finds that the state is using fanciful figures to provide teachers and taxpayers with misleading assurances about the safety of the pension system, one of the largest in the nation: After consulting with several […]

Demolished churches, shuttered schools and orphanages, censorship raids on private libraries, and deportations. These are all things Christians in Sudan now have to deal with on a regular basis. According to Reuters, ever since the country’s Christian-heavy southern section seceded, the persecution in the north has increased dramatically: Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said […]

Over at the New York Times where hostility to all things Roman Catholic is a longstanding tradition, Frank Bruni has mixed a unique cocktail of one part sharp observation, two parts confusion about Christian teaching, a dash of schadenfreude and splash of scandal. It is, in other words, business as usual at the newspaper of […]

This week, we took a close look at how the world leaders across the globe have utterly failed to provide the bold leadership the world needs in the face of a serious crisis. Italy’s dysfunctional political class is leading the way, but the rest of the world, from America to China, is not far behind: […]

In 2005 George Soros’ top hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller predicted the 2008 crash. Now he’s back to warn that a worse one is on the way: In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Druckenmiller sounded off about policies that enrich the old at the expense of the young and which could lead to a serious […]

The war of words between Scotland and the Cameron government is intensifying as the Scottish independence referendum approaches. Last week, the British government released a report warning Scotland of the ramifications of an independence vote. Most importantly, the UK argues that an independent Scotland would need to renegotiate the thousands of international treaties it is currently party to as a […]

Could Los Angeles be turning its back on blue politics? If special interests have anything to do with it the answer will be no, as unions are pouring millions of dollars into the mayoral and city council races to keep their veto over policy in the country’s second largest city. But despite the best efforts […]