It’s a bad time to be young. According to a new report by the Federal ReserveBank of New York (h/t Andy Quinn), around 44 percent of recent college graduates (22-27) were underemployed in 2012—meaning they had jobs that didn’t require a college degree. The inability of politicians and the Boomer generation to develop any pro-millennial agenda except “let them smoke pot” is a scandalous failure.

Could it be that boys are different from girls…and that that’s OK? Christina Hoff Sommers has a good piece in Time about The Mask You Live In, a new documentary arguing that an unhealthy culture of masculinity (“never cry or show your feelings”) is what gives rise to violence, like the school shootings that have been all too common over the past decade. Ever the bête noire of professional gender equalitarians, Sommers states the obvious: aggression and emotional reserve are biologically natural for men.

Radio silence reigns among Israel’s critics as Palestinians suffer brutality at the hands of pro-Assad forces in Syria. In the cozy cocoon of the anti-Israel world, the suffering of Palestinians only becomes visible when Israelis do something to them. Otherwise they and their problems simply don’t exist.

Egypt’s new constitution is widely expected to pass in a referendum today. The measure enjoys unanimous support from the media, and opponents have been forbidden from campaigning on its behalf for fear of arrest. The military is still on top.

We’re used to thinking about sex-selective abortion as a third world phenomenon, but a new study finds that the barbarous practice has reached England’s shores. An investigation by The Independent into birth data for immigrant populations in England and finds good evidence that sex-selective abortions are practiced more widely than many realize. But sex-selective abortions are illegal in England, while a bill to ban them in the United States failed.

Officials from both Japan and China, including the Japanese prime minister, visited Africa recently. Is Africa becoming the latest battleground for east Asian diplomatic and economic competition?

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s ambitious school voucher programs just got a big boost from one of the biggest names in education reform. Students First, a school reform organization led by former DC schools commissioner Michelle Rhee, released a national state-by-state report card on Tuesday which ranked Louisiana first in the nation with a B- grade, just ahead of Florida, Indiana and Rhode Island.

Viewing religion in an unbroken continuum with every variant of magic is a perspective grounded in a widely diffused class of people—part of the culture of an international intelligentsia.

A few weeks ago, Iraqi Kurdistan began piping oil north to its border with Turkey, connecting Iraqi oil fields with Turkey’s fairly extensive pipeline network for the first time. That didn’t go over well in Baghdad, where officials are worried that the region’s oil exports to Turkey will make it more economically and politically independent from the central Iraqi government. Irbil has done little to quell those fears, announcing that it will sell its first blocks of oil through its own regional oil marketing association, rather than the Iraqi state equivalent.

The evidence is mounting that the vicious torture and murder of Christians in the Central African Republic may have had backing from government in Chad. The CAR isn’t the only place in Africa where religious violence occurs almost daily. Today, the Nigerian army blamed the jihadist group Boko Haram for bombing a market place in Maiduguri. The MSM would rather not talk about the God Wars in Africa, but this continues to emerge as the biggest story south of the Sahara.