A quick follow-up to yesterday’s story about the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister’s nasty remarks about the Jewish diaspora being behind the Gezi protests: Hurriyet Daily News reported the story first and then faced stiff push-back from the Deputy PM’s office.Well Hurriyet now has a video backing up its initial reporting. (h/t FT‘s Daniel Domby)Over to you, Mr. Erdogan?

China is attempting to hijack India’s port development project in Chabahar, Iran. It’s a sign that the two largest economies in Asia are gearing up for a global battle over commercial harbors. India announced in May that it would fund a $100 million upgrade of the Iranian port, but yesterday the Indian Express reported that […]

Over at The Atlantic David A. Graham has put together an excellent guide to the policy debates that are making North Carolina one of the most interesting and important political experiments taking place in America today. The state, which only four years after voting for Barack Obama elected a GOP Governor and Republican-controlled legislature last fall, is […]

Shale gas isn’t just good for America, it’s good for North America. A new report from the Boston Consulting Group suggests that cheap American shale gas is going to power a Mexican manufacturing boom (h/t Matt Yglesias): Within five years, higher manufacturing exports due to a widening cost advantage over China and other major economies could add $20 […]

One of China’s biggest manufacturers of wind turbines is shutting down its subsidiaries in Italy, Canada, the US, and Belgium. Sinovel has gone through two CEOs, layoffs, court battles over alleged theft of a US company’s software, and internal restructuring—all in the past year.Sinovel is hoping to turn its fortunes around by shuttering these four […]

Boys are being penalized in schools simply for exhibiting traits characteristic of their gender. So writes teacher Jessica Lahey in The Atlantic, who claims that her colleagues are failing to understand and engage boys in the classroom: Something is rotten in the state of boys’ education, and I can’t help but suspect that the pattern […]

Johns Hopkins Medical is partnering with Walgreens to create a new branch of the chain with healthier food and an amped-up health care clinic. The two groups will use the store to experiment with new ways of delivering medical care cheaply to local patients. The Baltimore Sun: “We see this as a sort of lab,” said Dr. Jay […]

Pennsylvania, which has the eighth-worst pension system in the country, is following Illinois (#1) by punting on reform. The budget passed by the legislature on Sunday does nothing for pensions; a fix will now have to wait for the fall session.The parallels with Illinois are striking. In both states, pension liabilities are higher than total annual revenues […]

The sleuths in charge of Turkey’s governing AK Party have been trying to figure out what sinister forces are responsible for the unrest in their country. Clearly, their own policies cannot be responsible; that must be obvious to a child. There must then be some hidden hand, some evil conspiracy leading people astray. Prime Minister […]