While on his Eurotour earlier this fall – during which he visited France, Germany, Italy, and Romania – WRM gave an interview to Romanian TV station, Digi24, in Bucharest. The interview was conducted in English and covered everything from the civilizational differences of European nations to why WRM has given up trying to label himself: […]

Unde malum et quare? Where does evil come from and why does it exist? That has always been one of the big questions; over at Bloomberg News, former White House macher and Samantha Power super-spouse Cass Sunstein says he’s solved at least one part of the riddle: he’s figured out the from whence and why […]

Europe’s green policies have put it in the unenviable position of paying more money for dirtier energy. By subsidizing nascent green technologies like solar and wind, Europe has driven its electricity prices up sharply. At the same time, it’s started importing coal, a dirty energy source, from the US (we no longer need as much […]

How much does NYC have to fear from the impending de Blasio victory? The FT’s Christopher Caldwell, who also writes for the Weekly Standard, is comfortingly blasé. De Blasio only intends to raise taxes on people making more than $500,000 and he can’t even do that unless the legislature and the governor go along (they […]

At 600 feet tall it will be the world’s largest statue, taller than China’s Spring Temple Buddha, the current record holder, and twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York. But despite its impressiveness, the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, construction on which began Thursday, won’t avoid controversy.Patel was India’s first Home Minister after […]

 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’ […]