Pakistan would love to have a powerful navy. The trouble is it can’t build one. $58 billion in debt, the Pakistani government can’t afford much else either.But such small details won’t stand in the way of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s goal of bumping Pakistan up to naval parity with its neighbors. On Tuesday, the Pakistani Defense […]

Bill de Blasio, the odds-on favorite to become New York City’s next Mayor, has declared war on the city’s charter schools. Yesterday, thousands of charter school teachers and students marched on the Brooklyn Bridge to protest his promise that, if elected, he would no longer let charter schools use empty or underused public school buildings […]

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act is going a lot worse than its supporters ever predicted, but the ultimate fate of the law will depend a large part on whether it makes health care more or less expensive in the long run.As Obamacare rolls out, many current health plans will be cancelled because they don’t meet […]

Americans lag behind their international competition when it comes to math. That’s according to a new OECD report comparing developed countries’ literacy, numeracy and technological skill rates, which found that Americans ranked 21st out of 23 on the latter. Worse, the younger generation is losing ground compared to older generations. American boomers actually performed better […]

On October 4, 2013, the New York Times published an article by Kim Severson about the opening of the Newman Center residence hall in Troy, Alabama, which contains the third-largest public university in the state. The dormitory “caters to students who want a residential experience infused with religion”. Newman Centers have of course been around […]

We’re already well into the second week of open enrollment, and the errors that plagued Obamacare’s federal exchanges last week don’t seem to be going away yet. A number of news sites trying to access the exchanges report continued technical difficulties. One blogger trying to get coverage for his family has been trying to sign up […]

India signed an agreement in Sri Lanka’s capital on Monday to construct a $500 million coal-powered plant. The move seems designed to counter China’s increased influence in the island nation just off India’s coast. The Wall Street Journal reports: India, a traditional political and economic ally of its southern neighbor, is worried about increasing Chinese […]

Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company believes it will have an effective vaccine for malaria as early as 2015. London-based GlaxoSmithKline has published the results of the most recent trials on its vaccine, RTS,S. The results show that the treatment nearly halved the number of cases of malaria experienced by young children. The Guardian: The dossier will […]

Argentina’s wild and wacky quest to avoid paying its creditors—a saga that at one point saw the “pride of Argentina’s navy” seized at a Ghanaian port by an American hedge fund—is nearing its sorry end. Earlier this summer the IMF and US Treasury left Argentina for dead; yesterday the US Supreme Court smacked down Argentina’s petition to avoid […]

Malthus may have just been blasted by the focused power of 192 laser beams.Scientists at the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made a huge breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology late last month. For the first time, a fusion reaction reportedly produced more energy than it consumed.Nuclear fusion has long been seen as energy’s holy grail; […]