A number of schools have been freezing tuition and increasing financial aid in a bid to reverse falling enrollments, but Virgina’s Strayer University may be taking the most extreme step yet, cutting tuition by 40 percent for the next school year. This comes one month after the business decided to close 20 campuses in an […]

Did Beijing bite off more than it could chew with its Air Defense Identification Zone? Just hours after China announced its new ADIZ that covered territory in the East China Sea claimed by Japan, the US issued a strong verbal rebuke and yesterday sent two B-52 bombers to fly through the area. The PLA did not even […]

In its November 2013 issue Commentary magazine carried an article by Jonathan Tobin, “Loving us to Death: How America’s Embrace is Imperiling American Jewry”. The article takes off from the rather startling findings of A Portrait of Jewish Americans, a survey of the Pew Center for Research. The demographic decline in the number of Jews […]

It would have been the biggest offshore wind farm in the world, but the German utility RWE just announced it’s abandoning its plan to build the 1.2 GW project off the coast of Britain. The FT reports: RWE insisted the decision on the Atlantic Array had nothing to do with UK policy and everything to do with […]

Saudi officials have not been holding back their feelings on the Iran deal. Here’s a selection of comments from Saudi officials and the media in the past few days:“We were lied to, things were hidden from us. The problem is not with the deal struck in Geneva, but how it was done,” Nawaf Obaid, a counsellor […]

Many in the West see “balance of power” and “spheres of influence” as antiquated and less-than-legitimate concepts and therefore largely ignore them. It’s time to ditch that conceit.

America’s methane emissions may be 1.5 times larger than the EPA’s current estimate, according to a new study. Researchers from eight different institutions, including Harvard University, arrived at that conclusion using a top-down methodology.Rather than measuring emissions from representative samples of known sources of methane—like livestock and oil and gas drilling—the authors analyzed air samples […]

Yesterday, WRM discussed the US-Iranian nuclear deal on PBS NewsHour, along with host Gwen Ifill and Nicholas Burns of the State Department. View the video here.

Anti-MOOC fervor gathered steam this week with the publication of a deflating interview with Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun, but MIT, for one, remains unfazed. In a recent report on the future direction of the school, MIT devoted considerable space to edX, which it considers one of the central pieces of its growth strategy in the coming years. MIT […]

The green movement has long had a penchant for conflating science with policy—that is, justifying their policy ideas with words like “scientific consensus” and labeling opponents as “anti-science.” This appeal to scientific authority, mixed with a “sky is falling” alarmism, has helped them pushed through ill-conceived green policies that all to often end in disaster. […]