Winter for Higher-Ed
Colleges Shutting Out Part-Time Students

The majority of students enrolled in degree programs juggle schoolwork with jobs and family commitments, but colleges do little to support part-time study.

Indian Elections
Rahul Gandhi Heads Back to 1984

Rahul Gandhi is coming under fire for the Congress Party’s role in violent riots in 1984 that left almost 3,000 Sikhs dead. Thirty years later, it’s becoming an election issue again.

peace talks on the edge
Can the Palestinians Deliver?

Today the most pro-peace Palestinians ever are in charge, but they are deeply unpopular. Will Palestinians accept a peace deal, or will the PA get a black eye?

ACA Fail Fractal
Unions, Uninsured More Skeptical of Obamacare Than Ever

Two union bosses are responding to the State of the Union by slamming the Obama administration’s refusal to meet their demands regarding the Affordable Care Act, and a new Kaiser Health tracking poll conducted January 14–21 shows that the ACA is less popular with the uninsured than it was in December.

Obama's Putin Problem
Russia Flouts Landmark Cold War Treaty

The US announced that Russia has violated a 1987 treaty explicitly banning the testing of medium-range missiles. According to US officials, Russia has been testing a new ground-launched, cruise missile since as early as 2008. But this isn’t just a technical dispute about a missile treaty; it’s a signal of a possible shipwreck of the White House foreign policy.

Pension Despair
Unions Declare War on Arithmetic in Illinois

It didn’t take long for Illinois public employee unions to demand that the courts declare arithmetic invalid. Barely two months after the state legislature passed a modest but much needed pension reform bill increasing the retirement age and slowing annual cost-of-living increases, a confederation of Illinois’ biggest public sector unions have filed a lawsuit claiming the law is both unconstitutional and unfair.

Bringing the Heat
Cheap Shale Gas Keeping Americans Warm

Plunging temperatures have sent natural gas prices up past $5 per million BTU for the first time in more than three years. That’s still much cheaper than most people elsewhere in the world pay for their natural gas, and here’s the thing: if it weren’t for the shale boom, that price would likely be much higher.

Reviews
The Square and Egypt’s Never-ending Revolution

A new Netflix documentary about the Arab Spring is tailor-made for a Western audience. It all-too-easily glides over some of the thornier realities of today’s Egypt.

SOTU Week Backsliding
Harry Reid to Obama: No Fast Track for You

Harry Reid said doesn’t want fast track authorization for trade legislation two days after President Obama trumpeted trade as an issue in his State of the Union address. The White House looks to be losing control of Capitol Hill Democrats.

China's Airpocalypse
Chinese Experts Call for Fireworks Ban to Combat Smog

China’s toxic air pollution is both deadly and expensive, but it also might be a party-ruiner. As the country gears up to celebrate the Lunar New Year, some experts are asking cities to do their part to curb smog by canceling traditional fireworks displays.

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