Israel just had its driest recorded winter, but it isn’t afraid of a water shortage. Desalination technology has come a long way, making predictions of a worldwide freshwater crisis seem far less likely to come true.

In case you missed it over the weekend, Walter Russell Mead had a penetrating essay in the Washington Post assessing Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department.

One of Vladimir Putin’s greatest successes of the Ukraine campaign has been his resounding propaganda victory. The West had better take heed and adjust.

Centrist Democrats are taking heat across the country from a reinvigorated liberal wing. This week, it was Governor Andrew Cuomo who was made to dance across the coals.

Every year Medicare allocates billions of dollars to doctors in fraudulent expenses that the government has deemed too costly to investigate.

In a rousing commencement speech, Michael Bloomberg told Harvard’s newest grads, and the academic community at large, that they must not shut out dissent on campus.

Good afternoon, TAI readers! We trust you’ve enjoyed your weekend so far. Take the time this Sunday to look back on what you may have missed on the site over the past week:

MOOCs have taken to the tropics: Online education provider Coursera is setting up a “national network” of MOOCs in Trinidad and Tobago.

The lawyers of the future will depend heavily on, or even be, computers.

When you step back and add up all the costs of commuting to and from work entails, the results are staggering. Thankfully, there’s a solution.