“The jihadists are still in the environs,” a Malian Army commander told the NYT. “They are certainly around. There are small caches of them, in hiding, 40, 80 miles from here.”Despite France’s quick success in pushing jihadists away from the main cities and towns in Mali, the enemy has not disappeared. They are still there, […]

Every new idea has problems and online ed is no exception. But the New York Times seems inordinately eager to call the whole thing a waste of time. Yesterday’s editorial, “The Trouble With Online College,” is oddly dismissive of what is likely to be the biggest threat to traditional college patterns of instruction: the “hybrid” […]

The New York Times suggests this morning that the White House is taking another look at whether to arm the Syrian rebel groups. The trouble is, all the choices are uglier now than they were when the president overruled his top national security officials to block this kind of aid last year. The good guys […]

Here’s a deal we wouldn’t be in a hurry to take: A Chinese entrepreneur will pay the local environmental protection chief 200,000 yuan (about $32,000) to take a 20 minute swim in an extremely polluted river. Looking to highlight the sorry state of the environment in his province and the widespread practice of industrial dumping […]

President Obama has put his Keystone XL pipeline decision off as long as he could, but soon he’s going to have to choose between his most important trading partner and one of his biggest constituencies. The New York Times has the story: Canada, the United States’ most important trading partner and a close ally on Iran […]

Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has a wide-ranging piece in the New York Times addressing the problem of income inequality in America, arguing that the U.S. is actually falling behind the rest of the developing world when it comes to social mobility. The piece touches on many issues, but the most interesting parts to us […]

Egypt is running out of dollars. The political turmoil following the revolution caused investors to flee and slowed tourism to a halt. As Egyptians scramble to exchange their weakening pounds for dollars, “foreign exchange offices can only supply 20 percent of the dollars for which they receive orders,” Reuters reports.Egyptian officials are remaining hopeful: Essam […]

Self-insurance is the latest loophole that could implode Obamacare. The news comes courtesy of the New York Times, which was a strong supporter of the measure when it was working its way through Congress but has lately devoted much of its coverage to the law’s numerous problems.The practice of self-insurance, whereby companies assume the financial risk for their employee’s health care costs, […]

The West Africa theater in the War on Terror that we aren’t fighting heated up again yesterday as gunmen in northern Nigeria kidnapped and killed foreign workers at a construction site. Perhaps they couldn’t find any polio vaccine workers to kill and so did the next best thing. In any case, Nigeria’s ineffective government looks […]

Voters in troubled Cyprus are turning their backs decisively on the communists. In the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, the incumbent communist AKEL Party made an extremely poor showing, while the candidate of the center-right won nearly 50 percent of the vote. A run-off election will still be needed to determine the final […]