BNB P2P
Airbnb and the Real World

Airbnb is one of many new service providers running afoul of the status quo in blue model cities. The company has dredged up some interesting data in its defense.

Department of Bad Ideas
Regulatory Roadblock For Online Ed

The Department of Education must be nostalgic for defunct regulations. If it reinstates the requirement that states authorize all online programs that enroll students within their borders, students will suffer.

Not Time Served
Students Seeking Skills, Not Degrees

In a rare sign of sanity in higher education, students are doing an end run on the ‘time served’ model of degree attainment at colleges, and instead are attending university in order to pick up only the skills they need.

Close Shaves in Ukraine
The Well-Groomed Autocrat

To understand what makes a dictator tick—and what separates today’s tin-pots from the tyrants of the past century—imagine you’re the man who cuts his hair.

"Democracy" in Egypt
Egyptian Military Tortures, Abuses Teenage Prisoners

Repression and tolerance follow each other in cycles in Egypt. Now is a particularly brutal time of torture and violence.

Battle for Ukraine
U.S. Fracking To Europe’s Rescue

The EU may start using the prospect of hydrocarbon imports from North America as leverage in the conflict over the Crimea. The economic dynamism of the American people often rescues us from our worst global blunders.

WRM in WSJ
Obama: Peace and Prosperity At No Cost to You

President Obama wants to transform the world while saving money and reducing overseas commitments. He can’t have it both ways.

The Great Inequality Debate
How the Collegiate Party Culture Increases Inequality

There’s a potent but underreported contributor to income inequality in our universities: the party scene.

The Saudi Summit
In Saudi Meeting Obama Faces Most Serious Challenge Yet

Friday’s US-Saudi meeting on Iran and Syria shows President Obama facing some of the most dangerous choices he’s had to make yet.

The Weekend Read
Give Me Peace Or Give Me Death

Ukraine could very well decide the future of Europe: there EU leaders must decide what they are fighting for.

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