After nearly a decade of drought, Israel has decided to make its freshwater rather than wait in vain for enough of it to fall from the sky. The Sorek desalination plant opening next month will be the largest facility of its kind in the world. Once it’s operational, Israel’s four desalination plants will be capable […]

Law school students should have the right to work for no pay. So argues American Bar Association President Laurel G. Belows, who urged the Labor Department to stop scrutinizing law firms for taking on unpaid interns. The Wall Street Journal reports: [Belows] also said a ban on such internships would curb “access for future employment […]

The wild success of the fracking industry has caught the attention of the big dogs in the energy industry. That’s good news for all involved, because the evidence shows that the bigger the companies get, the safer they frack. GE, a company that historically has had little interest in the oil and gas industry, is the […]

Russian-made S-300 antiaircraft missile launchers, considered one of the most advanced aerial defense systems in the world, have started arriving in Syria. Butcher Assad apparently gave an interview to Hezbollah’s TV station announcing that the first shipment of the weapons had arrived. The Israeli government, which sees the S-300s as a direct threat to national […]

“God” thinks the US shale revolution isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Andy Hall, an oil trader whose savvy has earned him that divine nickname, is pointing to the tendency of output to decline precipitously over the life of a shale well as a sign that fracking’s capacity to permanently reshape the global energy […]

American business schools are about to face some stiff competition from abroad. After years of looking up to the US model, international programs are borrowing from them and catching up: European graduate management programs received more than 90,000 Graduate Management Admission Test score reports from applicants during the 2012 testing year, marking both an all-time high […]

Dr. Michael Ciampi of South Portland, Maine, might do more to reform health care than the entire Obama administration. On April 1, Ciampi decided to stop taking insurance at his primary care practice, charging people instead a fixed, out-of-pocket price for all services. By cutting out the insurance middlemen on all claims, Ciampi will save both […]

Sequestration unfairly gouges the Defense budget, and unless it’s offset by an improbable Herculean reform effort in the Defense Department, it will probably wreak havoc in international security. ???

Want to save a few bucks investing in your child’s college fund? Today is your day. States across the country are boosting 529 college savings plans in an effort to entice new parents to sign up. The New York Times reports: To raise awareness of the savings plans, the College Savings Plans Network, a nonprofit group […]

Congress has gotten a bad rap over the past few years as a do-nothing body, but this is not fair. Congress has actually been incredibly busy. The Congressional Research Service reports that Congress has passed 70 bills in the 111th session alone bestowing names on US Post Offices.In case you’re counting, that’s 20 percent of all […]