The US Department of Education has approved financial aid for College for America, an online program that Southern New Hampshire University calls “the first degree program to completely decouple from the credit hour.”Marc Parry at the Chronicle Of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog reports (h/t Tyler Cowen): Unlike the typical experience in which students advance […]

For much of the past 60 years, the United States and China have been at odds over issues like the status of Taiwan and the nightmare that is North Korea. More recently, the pivot to Asia has added China’s various maritime territorial claims to this sometimes fraught relationship. By and large, all of these are […]

Congratulations on making it to Earth Day 2013! This is quite an achievement, given that the greens of the 1970s predicted we would all be living in a post-apocalyptic world of environmental despoliation, à la Soylent Green—that is, if we were living at all.Washington Policy Center once collected some of the choicest predictions from the decade […]

A 153-page report released today by Human Rights Watch makes for pretty distressing reading for anyone following the story of Burma’s emergence as an “open” and “free” democratic country. The report describes in detail the massacre of Rohingya Muslims by mostly Buddhist Arakanese, and blames the Burmese police and political leadership for allowing, even encouraging, the slaughter […]

Spring is here, a time when Japan’s nationalist politicians traditionally pay their respects to Japan’s war dead by visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. These visits always provoke a furor in the region, and this year things are no different. Among the shrine’s memorialized are more than a thousand war criminals who were executed after Japan’s […]

Fancy stadiums often appeal to politicians: they are prestige projects, they offer lots of publicity, promising jobs for their friends and associates, and they make construction unions very very happy. But publicly assisted stadium building is the mark of a city that has lost its way. The only development wheeze that is worse is casinos.The New […]

If Maureen Dowd’s evisceration manqué of President Obama’s gun control strategy in the New York Times is any indication, Ms. Dowd is in the wrong line of work. She doesn’t understand American politics. She doesn’t know how votes are gained and lost, she doesn’t know what presidents do or understand what powers they have, and above all […]

The news this week was dominated by the tragedy at Monday’s Boston Marathon. We wrote on Tuesday that the gap between the crime and the politics of the culprits’ capture gave us an opportunity to see the bombing for the inexcusable, evil act it was. Boston’s finest lived up to their name and the whole […]

Secretary Kerry announced this morning that the US would double its support for the Syrian rebels, with total of a quarter of a billion dollars in assistance heading their way.The New York Times has the story: A portion of the new American aid, the State Department said, will help provide additional “nonlethal” supplies to the […]

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, has finally spoken about her decision to ban telework in her company. Mayer made headlines in February for her decision to end that practice, which some employees were allegedly abusing. Speaking at a conference on Thursday, Mayer at last addressed what she described as the elephant in the room. Fortune reports: She […]