Lawyers are famous for being able to argue their way out of anything, but even they might have trouble defending the schools that trained them. International Human Rights Attorney Chris Fletcher warns in the WSJ that law schools are being less than forthcoming with potential applicants about the grim job prospects that await them on […]

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are one of the best things going right now. They increase crop yields in extreme climates, are resistant to disease, and are one of our best technological solutions to feeding an ever-growing global population in an environmentally sustainable way. But to many people, they are just creepy, which is why much […]

A car bomb ripped through a procession of Shia pilgrims today in Musayyib, Iraq, almost 40 miles south of Baghdad, killing 27 people. The bombers were most likely Sunnis trying to reignite Iraq’s civil war.As the Shia regime of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki grows increasingly authoritarian and sectarian violence gets worse and worse, the fear grows […]

While Spain is raiding its pension funds to settle its government debt, many cities in America are doing the opposite: borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars to pay short-term pensions costs. As the AP notes (h/t Huffington Post), city governments hope that in the long term, pension investments will make up for the cost of the […]

Saudi Arabia’s budget has grown by 58 percent since the Arab Spring, with massive welfare and public spending driving the growth.Even as popular uprisings rocked neighboring Bahrain and Oman and toppled an ally in Egypt, the richest gulf monarchy remained unscathed. But rising housing and food prices, youth unemployment, and other expensive problems are forcing […]

Since its financial crisis began, Spain has been having trouble finding buyers for its increasingly risky government bonds. It thought it had found the perfect solution to this problem: tapping its own Social Security Reserve Fund as a buyer of last resort. But there’s one small catch. As the Wall Street Journal reports, with 90 percent of the […]

The Financial Times has some good news for the Eurozone: the ratings group Fitch announced that U.S. banks have increased their exposure to the EU for the fifth straight month as of last November, with investment up by 8 percent month-over-month. German banks were the greatest beneficiaries, but even French borrowers got some love. So things […]

We at Via Meadia believe that telecommuting will play an important role in the new information economy, reducing outmoded commuting practices along with greenhouse gas emissions. But not everyone is so sure. Evgeny Morozov, writing in Slate, argues that telecommuting makes it hard to manage employee productivity and sucks up people’s free time by expanding the number […]

Connections between the adult Jesus, his childhood and the family in which he was raised aren’t easy to make. At first glance, the gospels don’t offer much; whatever the gospel writers had in mind, producing complete biographies of Jesus wasn’t it. Mark omits Christmas altogether, and starts with Jesus getting baptized and launching his career. […]

They’re at it again. David Cameron and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the loud and proud leaders of the UK and Argentina, resumed their diplomatic brawl over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.In a letter penned for the Guardian, Kirchner claimed that today is the 180th anniversary of Britain’s “theft” of the islands from Argentina. She […]