Some states are friendlier to online education than others when it comes to credentialing and other regulations. This can be a problem for the more than 7 million students who are enrolled in online classes. Fortunately, there are proposals to mend this patchwork system. The New York Times reports on one of those proposals: A commission on […]

Representatives from ASEAN and China have agreed to talk about a code of conduct in the South China Sea, Indonesia Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told reporters today. That’s great news, especially because the meeting was China’s idea, according to Natalegawa. If true, this is a departure from Beijing’s usual stonewalling when it comes to working out […]

Two years after the US Supreme Court ruled that California prison conditions constituted “cruel and unusual punishment,” Governor Jerry Brown says his state has “one of the finest prison systems in the United States.” A district and a federal court disagreed this week, rejecting his requests to regain control of prisons from the federal judiciary and […]

The trial of Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell, which started on March 18, has spawned a number of revelations—revelations for which the adjective “disturbing” hardly does justice. According to the Grand Jury report, Gosnell “regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy—and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.” […]

According to the US agricultural attaché in Cairo, Egypt is overestimating by a third or more the yield from this year’s wheat crop. This matters because, first of all, Egypt is the world’s largest importer of wheat, a main food staple for Egyptians. Second, it matters because the government sets import and stockpiling policies based on […]

As Congress and student advocates debate the failings of federal student loans, one grad student may have discovered the fastest way to drive down student debt: living in a van.Newly liberated from his undergraduate debt and faced with paying over $10,000 for living expenses at grad school, Ken Ilgunas chose instead to turn his van […]

Will Obamacare stop your employer from giving you healthcare?  Yesterday a report came out showing that the number of Americans receiving insurance from their employers has been declining since 1999. A debate is raging in the press on whether Obamacare will accelerate this trend.A piece in the WSJ profiles three small business that are contemplating paying the penalty for non-compliance […]

Employers take note: workers consider telework-enabled schedule flexibility as one of the most desired benefits. As the FT reports, many employees even value it more than a high salary: Clive Davis, director at recruitment specialist Robert Half UK, [acknowledges] that benefits around flexible working are the most desirable: “The ability to work flexibly from home is often […]

Young women are growing tired of the culture that was supposed to liberate them. That, at least, is what Raisa Bruner, a Yale senior, and many of her female cohorts think.They call themselves “SWUGS”, or senior washed up girls—women who, faced with a “hook-up culture” that leaves them feeling empty, have become apathetic about their […]