The Benghazi story is back—and it could mean bad news for Hilary Clinton’s political future. 60 Minutes recently ran an episode on the Benghazi affair that summed up the findings from a year’s worth of reporting and investigation. One of its key sources was Dylan Davis, who worked perimeter security at the compound. His words, under one […]

Providence, Rhode Island simply cannot generate the revenue needed to pay for itself, reports the WSJ: Rhode Island’s capital has been squeezing its 178,000 residents for more cash since losing a significant chunk of a big revenue source: state aid.…There are few options for the government to tap more money. The city’s commercial-property taxes are […]

Public universities have been hit hard by the recession, as cash-strapped states cut down on their contributions to school budgets and enrollment has declined. Now some of them are considering selling assets, including land and buildings, to make ends meet.A new piece in the WSJ takes a closer look at this trend in a profile of North […]

American readers will find many unfamiliar names in this piece on the complicated politics of Chhattisgarh in India’s Caravan magazine. The story conveys how competition between different interest groups breeds corruption, and how hard it is for both BJP and Congress at the national level to manage all the intricate political details in the country’s 28 states.In […]

Pakistan’s Ministry of Defense has provided its first official figures for casualties from drone strikes, and they are surprisingly low. In the 318 drone strikes the US has conducted since 2008, when the program really hit its stride, 2,227 people have been killed, and only 3 percent, or 67 people, were civilians. Many human rights organizations’ […]

The latest poll on Obamacare may surprise both sides of the debate. The poll, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that disapproval with the rollout is widespread, but this dissatisfaction hasn’t translated into increased opposition to the law itself. On the contrary, support for the ACA is basically the same as it was before the […]

Ukraine’s approaching hour of decision is one of the biggest geopolitical stories of our time. If you haven’t been following this story, it’s this: Ukraine is considering signing a free trade and association agreement with the EU, and Russia is not pleased. The Kremlin has threatened and bullied and offered incentives to Kiev in an […]

College students have been beating a path away from the humanities. Since the 1970s, the percentage of American college students majoring in humanities fields has been cut in half—to only seven percent—as students pursue degrees in programs like science and business. As a result, a number of colleges are shuttering their under-attended programs, which is […]

In partnership with the State Department’s “MOOC Camp Initiative,” Coursera, the online education purveyor, is planning to open a number of “learning hubs” in foreign countries, where students can come to take free online courses that would include classroom discussions taught by locally based foreign service officers or Fulbright scholars.The program is designed to overcome […]

A local Chinese government is throwing a dying solar panel producer a $150 million lifeline. Suntech was once the world’s top seller of solar panels, largely because it was able to leverage government support to sell panels cheaper than all of its non-Chinese competitors. It won the race to the bottom, flooding the market with […]