As college grads increasingly cling to any jobs they can get, high school students are being pushed into the internship market for their first encounters with the world of work. The Chicago Tribune reports: “Part-time jobs have become scarcer and scarcer for high school students,” said Alison Cooper Chisolm, CEO of Massachusetts-based Ivey College Consulting […]

Meet Bayonne Medical Center in New Jersey, the most expensive hospital in the country. In an analysis of Medicare data from 2001, the NYT found that Bayonne charged more per treatment than any other US hospital for almost a quarter of common procedures. The data is eye-popping: Bayonne Medical typically charged $99,689 for treating each case of […]

[Our hearts and prayers are with all those affected by the tornado in Oklahoma and their families. In light of this tragedy, here are some comments we made on the eve of Hurricane Sandy on natural disasters and our relationship to the higher powers around us. The disaster is different, but the message is just as pertinent […]

By now you’ve probably heard about Yahoo’s purchase of the social networking/publishing platform Tumblr for an eye-popping $1.1 billion, which made its founder David Karp about $265 million richer overnight.The 26 year old, whom Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer characterized as “one of the most perceptive, capable entrepreneurs I’ve worked with,” is cut from the same cloth as […]

Prime Minister Thein Sein of Myanmar yesterday became the first leader from his country to make an official visit to the United States in nearly fifty years. In talks in the Oval Office, Sein sought to assure the President Obama that his country would continue to move forward on political reforms; the President, for his […]

This piece is fourth in a series on the challenges facing the U.S. Armed Forces. Previous entries discussed the Army, the Air Force and the Marine Corps. The past eight months have been troubling for American security and for how the world regards American power. The September 11, 2012 attack on our consulate in Benghazi […]

Editors’ note: What follows is the eighth part of an exchange on Russian-Western relations following from David Kramer and Lilia Shevtsova’s monthly column at The American Interest Online (see especially their February 21 essay, “Here We Go Again: Falling for the Russia Trap”). The exchange, a complete listing of which may be found below, has also provoked […]

Have the Bush-era neocons and Obama liberals made all the same mistakes in the Middle East? David P. Goldman argues convincingly in Tablet that the past five years of Middle East policy have been marked not by a Democratic departure from the previous administration’s policies but by a complete failure by consensus: with regard to […]

Colorado and Washington made headlines last year when majorities in both states voted to legalize the sale and use of mairjuana within their states. Six months later, both states are trying to figure out what a legal pot regime actually looks like, and it’s a tricky business.Naturally, the core issues stem from the regulation of […]

In a recent poll of Indian citizens by the Lowy Institute in Australia, 83 percent of respondents said they view China as a major national security threat. Just slightly more (87 percent) said the same of Pakistan. Despite China being India’s number one trading partner, fewer than a third of poll respondents said China’s rise has been […]