The crisis in law schools has been going on for a while now, but we didn’t realize it was this bad already: one observer estimates that over 80 percent of all law schools are operating at a loss.After obtaining the budgets from 31 law schools, including a mix of public and private institutions, Law Professor Paul […]

In what can only be described as a Freudian slip, Pakistan’s leading daily newspaper Dawn mistakenly referred to Hakimullah Mehsud, the newly-anointed leader of the Pakistani Taliban (abbreviated as TTP), as “the ruthless PTI leader” on their front page—a reference to the party of cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan. Khan, often criticized for being a Taliban […]

Obama’s mercurial policy on Syria has already alienated of two of our key allies in the Middle East, and now it’s having a similar effect on our allies in Europe. A new piece in the WSJ reports that some senior officials in Europe are beginning to doubt the President’s resilience toward Iran: Mr. Obama has also described […]

At the beginning of the month, we noted that the botched Obamacare rollout hadn’t yet started to make the law unpopular. That’s no longer the case, to put it gently. The most recent Quinnipiac poll is full of stark numbers for the Obama administration. For starters, 55 percent of respondents now oppose Obamacare, compared to […]

Wikileaks got its hands on a draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, and it appears to vindicate many of the fears of internet freedom advocates. As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, the agreement will greatly help “multinational movie and music industries, software giants and pharmaceutical manufacturers to maintain and increase prices by reinforcing the rights […]

America’s energy future has never looked brighter. That’s one general take-away of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook, released yesterday, which describes a global energy mix in the midst of great upheaval. But underlying all the uncertainty over what comes next is the undeniable fact that the United States is better positioned than […]

Bill Clinton is making waves with his comments that President Obama should honor his “like it, keep it” promise, even if it means changing the Affordable Care Act. Clinton isn’t only the one saying this: Democrats nervous about the future of the law have been increasingly taking this line over the last week. But Clinton […]

Russia seems to be alienating old friends and struggling to make new ones these days. Its free trade zone, a rival to the European Union, has only a handful of members, and few countries are knocking the door down trying to join. And Ukraine, a country that is very special in the concept of the […]

To hear the Gray Lady tell it, it’s solar power’s time to shine, the green energy source is here to stay, and those skeptical of its efficacy or its effect on energy prices are polemicists. That’s the gist of a recent article it ran on the virtues of solar power. The piece rattles off some impressive numbers […]

Most blue model supporters don’t like to think they’re at all complicit in fattening up the financial sector. But hedge fund managers, investment bankers and Wall Street lawyers are increasingly sharing tips and advice on how to maximize profits off the failure of blue model government. Puerto Rico is just the latest target, as Bloomberg […]