It’s been a bad time for emerging markets; we’ve been reporting on growth slowdowns in China, Brazil and India along with trouble in South Africa and Turkey. As the Federal Reserve begins to signal a shift in its cheap money policy and rates start to rise in the US, bad news in the emerging markets […]

by Masha RifkinThe perennial refrain is getting louder all the time: “Where have all the good men gone?”Media outlets brim with stories of “men in decline.” While women surge into the ranks of the college educated, the employed, and the breadwinners, men are dwindling in all these categories. Theories for this trend abound. The Left […]

We interviewed Dr. Helen Smith on her new book, Men On Strike, and her views on the challenges men face as they navigate American societal, cultural, educational institutions.VM: You argue that various aspects of our social and economic structure have become so hostile to men that they have “gone Galt” and are opting out of […]

Sometimes the pictures are real, and other times creative criminals fake them using Photoshop. True or not, they can quickly bring down a Chinese bureaucrat’s career. Dan Levin and Amy Qin report for the New York Times: Often the image captures a well-fed, middle-aged bureaucrat engaged in a sordid encounter with a woman who is not his […]

Thanks to the shale boom, US coal exports reached an all-time high last March. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) credits increased Asian demand—Chinese demand, in particular—with the uptick, but the broader explanation involves shale energy and Europe’s green policies.The shale boom is displacing coal in America: coal is cheap, but the US glut of natural gas […]

Could the Obama administration in its second term be making a series of Middle East policy mistakes even more expensive and destructive than those the Bush administration made in its first? That is admittedly a high bar, but the trends are unsettling to say the least. The region is unraveling and American policy is in […]

An investigation has just found that British health officials deleted a damming report linking the death of 16 babies to poor practices at a UK hospital. Problems with Furness General Hospital’s maternity care were first raised in 2008; in 2010 the regional organization overseeing gave it a positive report. In 2011, however, an internal review by the Care Quality […]

The Lowy Institute in Australia launched a special page to monitor the combined Indian and Pacific Ocean theater yesterday, a smart step for one of the region’s best think tanks and an important resource for analysts. The monitor advances a controversial and relatively uncommon view of Australia’s environs and its strategic place therein: “In recent […]

Every year, the Energy Information Information Administration (EIA) releases its energy outlook, a survey of the global energy landscape with predictions for the future. This year’s report included two scenarios involving an energy self-sufficient America, something that wouldn’t have been within the realm of imagination even ten years ago. Though they exist on the fringe […]

All-star professors at New York University who are tapped for jobs in cheaper cities may think twice about moving. Under the stewardship of NYU President John Sexton, loans to professors for pricey vacation homes in the Hamptons and beyond have become part of the potential benefit package. The NYT reports: N.Y.U. has already attracted attention […]