Meet Egypt’s new bosses: same as the old bosses: After a year of turmoil, the feloul are back in power. Tamer el-Ghobashy reports for the WSJ: Beyond the partisan rancor that has engulfed Egypt since the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, a class of Egyptians is emerging to support the deposed leader despite disaffection with his […]

New Orleans firefighters are in deep trouble. Following an internal audit, the New Orleans Firefighters’ Pension and Relief Fund found that its investment income fell by an astonishing 83 percent last year, from $9.7 million in 2011 to only $1.6 million in 2012. As is often the case, the culprit appears to be a number of […]

Foreign students continue to fuel the growth of graduate programs across America. A new report from the National Foundation for American Policy claims that international students actually make up the majority of enrollments in U.S. graduate programs in many STEM fields. InsideHigherEd reports: [Foreign students account] for 70.3 percent of all full-time graduate students in […]

Israel plans to restructure its military with an eye on new threats and fading risks from neighbors like Syria and Egypt, the WSJ reports: Israel’s military plans to downsize its conventional firepower such as tanks and artillery to focus on countering threats from guerrilla warfare and to boost its technological prowess, in a recognition that […]

At a news conference after the Egyptian army’s not-quite-a-coup a few days ago, an Egyptian journalist stood up and demanded that reporters from Al Jazeera be excluded. The Al Jazeera team eventually left the meeting amid shouts of “out, out!”Al Jazeera was celebrated during the early days of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, when thousands […]

In the “if you like your insurance plan you can keep it” watch, Wegmans grocery chain has eliminated health insurance coverage for its part-time employees. The company has been praised for “voluntarily offer[ing] health insurance to employees who worked 20 hours per week or more.” But no more. Buffalo News reports that the company has discontinued […]

The Voluntary Institutional Metrics Project, a coalition of 18 institutions of higher learning funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, brings together mostly community colleges and other non-traditional schools in pursuit of the goal of evaluating their performance across five main areas. On Wednesday, the group released a set of performance metrics that include: […]

It wasn’t long ago that people were predicting Poland would be one of the next big boom sites for shale. The country seemingly had a lot of it, and gas companies were tripping over themselves to be first movers in the new market. But complex geology and bureaucratic red tape are leaching that dream of […]

DC has just become the latest battleground over Walmart’s business practices. The retailer recently announced plans to open a number of stores in the city, but the District government has been throwing obstacles in its path. This is no way to create non-degree jobs in a city that desperately needs them.

A bill was introduced into the House that would encourage federal agencies to use telework and teleconferencing to cut down on costly travel expenses. The bill, called the Stay in Place, Cut the Waste Act, already looks to have bipartisan appeal, and could really move the needle on telework.