[Update below.] A college education used to be the way out of a job flipping burgers. These days, it’s a requirement. A McDonald’s franchise in Massachusetts posted a job advertisement for a cashier’s position that requires one to two years of experience and a bachelor’s degree. The Daily Beast reports: The ad calls for “friendly […]

Telework isn’t just convenient; it’s good for the bottom line too. An Australian accounting firm found that small businesses were more likely to increase their revenue if they allowed telework. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: According to the research small businesses whose employees worked remotely most or all of the time were 24 per cent more likely […]

A smiling Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of the Bank of Japan, announced this morning that Japan will embark on one of the largest monetary stimulus programs in history. It’s a huge win for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who in his second coming has turned the prevailing image of the Japanese PM as a faceless, ineffective nonentity […]

The South is moving quickly to the head of the pack in education reform. Following the lead of Louisiana’s Recovery School District, Tennessee is taking several low performing schools out of the jurisdiction of local school boards and placing them in a state-run Achievement School District, where well known charter operators like KIPP are taking […]

Millennials might finally be ready to retire their hipster ways and join the American suburban bourgeoisie.  Sixty-five percent of Gen Y renters (18-34) have a stronger intention to buy a house now than they did this time last year, according to a new study by PulteGroup. This figure has some people excited about the housing market’s […]

Editors’ note: What follows is the fourth part of an exchange on Russian-Western relations following from David Kramer and Lilia Shevtsova’s monthly column at The American Interest Online (see especially their February 21 essay, “Here We Go Again: Falling for the Russia Trap”). On March 12, Thomas Graham responded with his essay, “In Defense of […]

China may soon overtake the US as the world’s leading oil importer, and Washington couldn’t be happier. Due in large part to the shale gas revolution, America is becoming less dependent on foreign oil; in January, crude oil imports were down 8 percent from August. China, meanwhile, is moving in the opposite direction, with its […]

In just a few years, a neighbor’s basement may serve as a college classroom, the local YMCA as the dormitory, and a degree might come at the cost of one year’s tuition at a private college. That’s the idea behind Tim Cook’s Saxifrage school, an alternative (as yet unaccredited) to college profiled in the WSJ: Saxifrage is woven […]

The dreaded college tuition bill is only the most obvious cause of parental headaches. Miscellaneous items tucked into the fine print are also draining their pockets, like a “globalization fee,” a “parking/pedestrian fee,” and a “student success fee.” It’s a cunning sleight of hand, as Propublica reports: “It’s a way for colleges to increase the cost […]

The debate over immigration is heating up just as immigration itself is slowing down. According to the NYT, [a]ll across Mexico’s ruddy central plains, most of the people who could go north already have. In a region long regarded as a bellwether of illegal immigration — where the flow of migrants has often seemed never-ending — the streets […]