City lights
China Unveils Massive Infrastructure Plan

China has announced a massive infrastructure project that will move over 60 percent of the population to urban areas in under a decade. Among other things, this opens opportunities for corruption on a vast scale.

The Future of MOOCs
Who Owns MOOCs?

Who owns online courseware? The professor who created it? Or the school that gave the professor the resources and platforms to do so? Once colleges figure out how to monetize their MOOCs, these questions will be anything but academic.

Pension Reform
Defined-Benefit Public Pensions: Unwise and Unfair

Public pensions are extremely generous for lifetime employees. Other public workers, however, often get a raw deal.

Progressives at prayer
The Rise of Secular Religion

Today’s secular liberals are the direct descendants of the past century’s Puritans and Protestants, deeply concerned with matters of sin and salvation in the church of politics.

Blue Island on the Brink
Blue Models Crash, Wall Street Cleans Up

Puerto Rico is depending on Wall Street cash prop up its ailing blue model government. The commonwealth just numbs the pain for a spell, but the banks make a pretty penny in underwriting fees.

Game of Thrones
Taiwan Gets "Carrier Killer" as Asian Arms Race Escalates

The Taiwanese navy’s latest prize asset is a twin-hulled, stealthy missile corvette that carries powerful anti-ship missiles and can hit a top speed of 70 kilometers an hour. The ship, the first of a possible 12 under construction, was delivered this weekend.

Pension Meltdown
California’s Centrist Dems Overwhelmed by the Left

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s municipal pension reform has gone down in flames. California may have prominent centrist Dems like Reed and Governor Jerry Brown, but the state’s pro-union Democrats still make for a powerful left flank.

Pak-China Relations
Pakistan’s “All-Weather Friend” Cools Relations over Militancy

Pakistan’s inability or unwillingness to address the issue of Uighur militant groups using its territory as a training ground is putting Islamabad’s “all-weather” friendship with Beijing under stress.

Mending Fences
Not the Right Time for a Fight with India

Just as U.S.-India relations were getting back on an even keel, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a second indictment of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade over her visa fraud case. The President needs to step in and put an end to this destructive case in a way that satisfies America’s interests in justice and in good relations with India.

Sectarian Civil War
Iraq’s Unraveling

The deepening sectarian war in Iraq fits into the Sunni-Shia conflict raging from Lebanon and Syria to Iran and Pakistan.

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