Clouds over Europe’s future grew a little darker yesterday. Italy is still without a new head of state as an effort to have former Prime Minister Romano Prodi elected failed miserably after 100 left-wing delegates refused to vote for the center-left politician. His defeat has thrown the Italian left into chaos, and ensured that the […]

Despite its recent victories in national elections, the Democratic Party is standing on shaky ground. For years, the coalition of minority voters, labor unions, working-class whites and affluent, college-educated liberals has held together despite its inherent contradictions, but we’re now seeing signs that it is beginning to come apart. In what we’ve dubbed the “blue […]

When confronted by a belligerent, nuclear-armed North Korea, America’s goal is not just to try to reduce the prospect of war on the Korean peninsula. Washington also must calm nerves across the region, especially in Tokyo and Seoul. If the US fails to get North Korea behaving properly, Japan and South Korea, among others, start to edge […]

The shale boom and the rise of gas are doing more to help the environment than all the green handwringing in the world. New estimates from the Energy Information Administration found that America’s carbon dioxide emissions dropped 12 percent from 2005 to 2012. Many attribute this drop to both the recession and the shift from […]

AI Editor Adam Garfinkle has a must-read on the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Those uninformed about the significance of the uprising and its vital connection to Jewish Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day will learn a lot from the piece. He points out that many Jews were unwilling to commemorate the Holocaust until the testimony of […]

We wrote about the MSM’s inability to grasp the politics that caused the gun control bill to fail in the Senate this week. The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing illustrates the divide.Millions of Americans listening to the bulletins on the developing manhunt were either glad they had guns in their homes or thought seriously […]

For the first time in ten years, 30-year-olds with a history of student debt are less likely to buy homes and cars than their debtless counterparts. Or in other words, a college degree, while offering a potential career boost, may be holding the young back from acquiring other major markers of adulthood.According to a study by […]

Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf is now in police custody, the BBC reports. He appeared in court in Islamabad this morning and was originally placed under house arrest. Later, he was transfered to police headquarters, in yet another twist in the strange tale of Musharraf’s inglorious return to Pakistan.Musharraf, who took power in a military coup in 1999 […]

We’ve been hearing for years about America’s need for more STEM graduates. One of the problems colleges have found in trying to serve that need is that the high school graduates they’re supplied with are all too often uninformed and unprepared for STEM work. As a result, nearly half of all students who set out […]

The people of Oman were nearly the latest victims of the wave of unacceptable sexiness sweeping the Middle East. After the Saudi religious police swiftly deported three dangerously handsome Emirati men, Oman made equally quick work of Justin Bieber: The raucous teen, who announced that he was cancelling the gig earlier this week, reportedly upset Muslim leaders […]