Everything you need to know about the sinking blue ship known as Puerto Rico has, as usual, been compiled by the Economist in a short, readable article here. The journey the island commonwealth has taken to get to the breaking point has been uniquely its own, as are its myriad challenges ahead, but the comparisons […]

South Korea will purchase 40 F-35A fighter aircraft from Lockheed Martin, the first installment of a large expansion of its air force. The stealth fighters will be delivered beginning in 2018, and twenty more aircraft, possibly Boeing F-15s, are expected to be on the way after 2023.The F-35 is one of the most sophisticated fighter jets in the […]

The enrollment decline at American colleges is causing an even bigger problem: lost revenue. Over the past couple years, almost 50 percent of the country’s colleges have seen the growth in tuition revenue fall below the rate of inflation. Given that tuition makes up the bulk of most college’s revenue, this could quickly become an […]

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey is finding that Hillary Clinton’s support is in free-fall. Politico: The poll also highlights that Clinton is losing support among younger voters, independents and even within her own party. She dropped 15 percentage points since April among 18- to 34-year-olds who said they had a positive view of Clinton to […]

Democrats moved yesterday to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate for most presidential nominees, sweeping aside a decades-old convention in what has come to be known colloquially in Washington as ‘the nuclear option‘: The rule change allows nominations to proceed with a simple majority, or 51 votes when all senators are present, down from the […]

This year’s global climate summit talks in Warsaw are set to come to a close later this week, and yet again it looks like nothing lasting will come of them. But even by the annual UN summit’s own dismal standard, this round has been particularly dysfunctional.First, Poland set the tone by scheduling a coal conference in […]

MOOC students are disproportionately educated and male when compared with the country at large according to a University of Pennsylvania study making the rounds this week. The study, which looked at the demographics of students taking the university’s courses through Coursera, found that just under 60 percent of all students were male, and over 80 […]

 What a difference a day makes. Ukraine, which was set to sign a free trade and association agreement with the EU in eight days, today spun on its heel. Reuters reports: The order issued by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said the government was suspending preparations for concluding the agreement with the EU “with the aim […]

Punitive measures enforced by Egypt and the incompetence of the ruling Hamas government have combined to make the humanitarian disaster in Gaza one of the most sickening around. The NYT reports that a shortage of electricity and cheap diesel fuel from Egypt has led the Hamas government to shut down Gaza’s lone power plant, causing […]

Riots erupted in August between Hindus and Muslims in Muzaffarnagar, a large city in the key battleground state of Uttar Pradesh. At the end of the several days of destruction, 43 people were dead and tens of thousands had fled their homes. Afterward, two politicians belonging to India’s main opposition party, the BJP (the party of controversial […]