Colorado and Washington made headlines last year when majorities in both states voted to legalize the sale and use of mairjuana within their states. Six months later, both states are trying to figure out what a legal pot regime actually looks like, and it’s a tricky business.Naturally, the core issues stem from the regulation of […]

In a recent poll of Indian citizens by the Lowy Institute in Australia, 83 percent of respondents said they view China as a major national security threat. Just slightly more (87 percent) said the same of Pakistan. Despite China being India’s number one trading partner, fewer than a third of poll respondents said China’s rise has been […]

Two Amtrak trains collided this weekend after a derailment in western Connecticut, injuring 72 people and destroying almost half a mile of track. Now the focus is on commuters on the affected Metro North line—all 30,000 of them—who won’t be able to take the train into work this week. The AP reports on the delays riders […]

When we highlighted the disturbing uptick in male suicides in a post last week, we noted that a weaker economic outlook for adult men may play a significant role in driving this trend. As the thinking goes, men are finding it more difficult to find work, which makes it harder to find partners and build a family in […]

Teachers’ unions have been fighting a (mostly losing) battle against charter schools for nearly two decades, but the chief victims of the charter and voucher revolutions might not be public schools after all. Smaller private schools, including Catholic schools, face a crisis as they’re increasingly supplanted by charters.In an excellent piece in The Atlantic, Chester E. […]

They’re baaaaaack!The infamous Chinese hacking group Unit 61398 is once again on the offensive after a few quiet weeks. The PLA-guided hackers were fingered by Washington for dozens of sophisticated hack attacks against targets in the West earlier this year. Now Mandiant, the computer security firm that first exposed Unit 61398, says the hackers are […]

The climate story is turning out to be more complicated than green zealots have claimed. A new report published yesterday in the journal Natural Geoscience is challenging the scientific consensus on how fast the Earth is warming.In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that the climate would warm by between 1°C and 3°C […]

How do you repay your only friend in the world? If you’re North Korea, you spend the last few weeks acting like a deranged James Bond villain fingering the red button on a doomsday device, threatening to set off a regional war unless your demands are met, and leaving your ally China, already fairly isolated […]

In a real man-bites-dog story, an EU country with an economy that has expanded by almost a fifth since 2008 has opted to boost its military procurement in the coming decade by $43 billion. The country in question is Poland, the FT reports: Until now, most of that spending has gone on personnel, with only […]

This week’s essay focused on America’s jobs problem, and outlined why work is an essential human right: When thinking about the future of jobs during the Information Revolution, it’s important to remember that the drive to work is embedded in human nature rather than in economic scarcity. Human beings don’t just work because they want […]