Dr. Helen Smith highlights an explosive topic that few want to talk about openly: discrimination against male students on college campuses. As Dr. Helen notes, university policies on sexual misconduct, as well as societal bias, are putting many college men in the hot seat, but few seem to care: The discrimination will continue because there is […]

The Obama administration seems to be trying a new tactic in its negotiations with Iran: using Israel as a credible military threat without having to threaten Iran itself. That’s the official read on yesterday’s $10 billion weapons sale to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.The FT reports that the US describes the package “as a […]

American health care spending has significantly slowed down in recent months. Reuters: In the past week, medical testing companies, such as Quest Diagnostics, medical device makers Johnson & Johnson and Abbott Laboratories, hospital operators, such as HCA Holdings Inc, and even diaper maker Kimberly-Clark, which has a surgical supply unit, have cited a slowdown in use […]

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have largely been an American innovation thus far. Europe has one or two small programs, but in Asia there are none at all—until now, that is.University World News reports that the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is now offering a class through Coursera, making it the first Asian school to […]

Toxic smog isn’t just choking China’s urbanites and costing the country billions; it’s changing city culture. The health care costs, premature deaths and material damages caused by China’s air pollution can all be quantified, but the impact of dirty air on the psyches of China’s growing urban population is hard to distill into raw numbers. […]

After top aides to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and more than 150 Japanese lawmakers visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, China sent its largest maritime patrol fleet to date into Japan’s territorial waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, sparking a shouting match between the two countries. Eight Chinese vessels approached the islands, where they bumped […]

For high school students (and their parents), attendance at the nation’s most elite universities has long been seen as a golden ticket to prosperity and lifetime job security. But is that golden ticket really worth the price? The New York Times has questions: While some students will be able to go to college only if they receive financial aid […]

Add Israel to the growing list of US allies condemning the Assad regime in no uncertain terms over its alleged use of chemical weapons.Israeli General Itai Brun, the IDF’s commander of the research division in the intelligence directorate, says “it is quite clear that they used harmful chemical weapons.” He cited as evidence pictures of victims with “shrunken […]

Twenty-one percent of young people ages 18 to 29 already own a home, and 68 percent plan to own a home within the next ten years, according to a new Gallup poll. Only 7 percent say they have no plans to buy a home in the foreseeable future.This is the first time Gallup has asked questions about […]

It wasn’t long after reports revealed the prime suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Watertown shootout as two ethnic Chechens, Tamerlan and Jokhar Tsarnaev, that tales of heroism in the press were displaced by the familiar frenzy of terrorism hysteria. From absurd notions that immigration reform should be scotched because the Tsarnaev brothers […]