Recent developments in Chile remind us how really violent the Communists really were. The BBC reports that the families of Chilean soldiers killed in a botched attempt to assassinate Gen. Augusto Pinochet are taking legal action against the head of the Communist party: In an interview with the Chilean newspaper La Tercera in April, Mr Teillier said […]

We’re rapidly approaching the point where we’ll no longer be able to treat many of our most deadly infections. PBS has a detailed, fascinating, and alarming interview with Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, an associate director at the CDC, about rising resistance to antibiotics among Western populations. Dr. Srinivasan points out that antibiotics have been a key part of treating […]

Besides the main battle in Syria—the rebels against Assad—there is also a nasty little war emerging among the rebels themselves, with the Kurds and moderates squaring off against the radical Islamists. Reuters reports: Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, fighters and monitors said, after three days of clashes […]

If Sarah Palin had leveled her accusations of death panels at Canada and not America, she apparently would have been right. That’s the thesis of new piece in Slate by Adam Goldenberg. It outlines how Ontario has a tribunal that is legally empowered to overrule family members trying to keep their relatives on life support alive. Goldenberg argues that […]

A notable uptick in violence has been reported in Kashmir this week. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Indian sources say Pakistani troops fired guns and mortars on at least 50 Indian border posts. For its part, Pakistan blamed India for escalating the violence. Ten civilians, including two children, were said to have been injured in this latest […]

It’s become a truism that the cost of college rises every year, putting a quality education out of reach for many families. Yet a new College Board report has found that despite the constant tuition increases, the amount that students actually pay for college has remained essentially flat for the last decade as scholarships and […]

Many blues style themselves as enemies of Wall Street, defenders of the little guy against voracious or reckless financiers. The branding seems unpersuasive, though, considering that pension fund managers, key stewards of the blue model, keep looking to high-risk, high fee Wall Street for help: According to a recent report by Cliffwater LLC, an adviser to institutional investors, from […]

With an independence referendum fast approaching, Scotland’s decision whether to stay in the UK may depend on the UK’s relationship with Europe. Although current polling suggests that the measure to dissolve the union will not pass, the FT warns that this could change if Britain continues distancing itself from the EU: Received wisdom has it that […]

While polio has been eradicated almost the world over, it is still stubbornly endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria—three countries where radical Islam is resurgent.As the New York Times reported last year, “Resistance to polio vaccine springs from a combination of fear, often in marginalized ethnic groups, and brutal historical facts that make that fear seem […]

A grand historical drama in the Middle East is moving towards a moment of decision, and the fate of President Obama’s foreign policy and much else besides is hanging by a thread. As two storms shake the foundations of the region’s political order (the Shi’a-Sunni war and the crisis of legitimacy across the region opened […]