News Analysis
Atomic Promise
America Ponies Up for the Promise of Nuclear Power

Uncle Sam just brought out the checkbook and committed funds to important nuclear power research.

Higher Ed Shake Up
A Three-Year BA?

Our existing higher education system isn’t working for millions of students. Time to test out new models.

Boo WHO
World Health Organization Launches Investigation of Israel

Glad to know all those other diseases have been taken care of, fellas.

Now You See It Now You Don't
ASEAN Voices “Concern” about South China Sea, Retracts Two Hours Later

Southeast Asia clearly remains divided on China.

Pricing Carbon
Cap and Trade Calamity in California

A recent auction of carbon allowances generated just 2 percent of expected revenue.

Higher Education Watch
The Professor Glut

The surplus of PhDs does not reflect well on the academic model of governance.

Underwater Warfare
China’s “Underwater Great Wall”

This isn’t the first we’ve heard of China’s efforts to improve subsurface capabilities.

the rent is too damn high
Backward Thinking in Silicon Valley

Affordable housing activists ignore the root of the problem.

Undiplomatic diplomat
EU Ambassador to Turkey Resigns “For Reasons Having to Do with Turkey”

From un-PC jokes to too-truthful commentary, Amb. Haber had a rough year in Ankara.

Latin Lefty Meltdown
Venezuelan Oil Output Plunges

Caracas saw its crude production fall more in May than it has in the past ten years.

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