Yesterday, we looked at one part of the future of education: parents turning to private tutors to supplement school-administered learning. Our core point was that even as the old educational system changes, new jobs will emerge. Matthew Yglesias makes another important point about the bright outlook for jobs in the education field. Automation may not, he points […]

The slow-motion collapse of the U.S. Postal Service has prompted much discussion about how to reform the institution. There is broad agreement on the basics: services will be cut back, stations will close, and employees will be let go, while those who remain will see their benefits and salaries restructured. Many on the left in […]

Last summer’s creation of South Sudan, widely hailed as a victory for the humanitarian lobby, is looking less successful by the day. First, there was a series of minor skirmishes along the disputed border with Sudan; then this escalated into Sudanese raids on Southern towns. Last week, things reached a new and even more critical […]

The Philippines and China were at loggerheads last week when a Philippine warship confronted two Chinese fishing boats near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. China dispatched two vessels to block the Filipino officers from boarding the fishing boats. Both countries later tried to diffuse the situation by rescinding formal diplomatic protests, […]

Machiavelli should have added a chapter to his book on advice to princes about vacations: Don’t go on safari during a national economic breakdown. If you do, don’t break your hip so you have to be medivaced, from southern Africa back to Europe, in a private jet.Such is the situation for the King of Spain. A […]

Following a one-day meting between Iran and a group of world powers in Istanbul on Saturday, some diplomats are cautiously optimistic that they’re making progress. Iran’s nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jaleeli, met with representatives of the six governments—the U.S., UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany—for the first time in more than a year, and, according to the […]

Aspiring young lawyers may want to read a new piece in the Wall Street Journal before sending in those law school applications. The Journal reports that, while the legal profession as a whole is beginning to see major price increases after the lean years of the recession, these higher fees are concentrated at the top […]

When people think about what will happen to jobs as the blue model continues to crumble, most have a picture in their heads of the type of change that is happening, and it is based on the experience of the last thirty years. Manufacturing jobs are going away. Professional and white collar jobs will continue […]

It was seven years ago that a Danish newspaper’s caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad enraged many Muslims across the Middle East. The effects of that backlash are still felt today in Denmark, where four alleged terrorists are in court over a retaliation plot in 2010 to open fire on a newspaper event attended by Danish […]

The election is still more than six months away, but the 2012 presidential campaign system is now officially underway: the Gallup organization has begun to release daily tracking polls.The first poll shows Mitt Romney with a narrow lead over President Obama — Gallup describes it as a “statistical tie.” The Rasmussen poll, the other daily […]