According to the US agricultural attaché in Cairo, Egypt is overestimating by a third or more the yield from this year’s wheat crop. This matters because, first of all, Egypt is the world’s largest importer of wheat, a main food staple for Egyptians. Second, it matters because the government sets import and stockpiling policies based on […]

As Congress and student advocates debate the failings of federal student loans, one grad student may have discovered the fastest way to drive down student debt: living in a van.Newly liberated from his undergraduate debt and faced with paying over $10,000 for living expenses at grad school, Ken Ilgunas chose instead to turn his van […]

Will Obamacare stop your employer from giving you healthcare?  Yesterday a report came out showing that the number of Americans receiving insurance from their employers has been declining since 1999. A debate is raging in the press on whether Obamacare will accelerate this trend.A piece in the WSJ profiles three small business that are contemplating paying the penalty for non-compliance […]

Employers take note: workers consider telework-enabled schedule flexibility as one of the most desired benefits. As the FT reports, many employees even value it more than a high salary: Clive Davis, director at recruitment specialist Robert Half UK, [acknowledges] that benefits around flexible working are the most desirable: “The ability to work flexibly from home is often […]

Young women are growing tired of the culture that was supposed to liberate them. That, at least, is what Raisa Bruner, a Yale senior, and many of her female cohorts think.They call themselves “SWUGS”, or senior washed up girls—women who, faced with a “hook-up culture” that leaves them feeling empty, have become apathetic about their […]

Recent commentary on Europe has been overwhelmingly parochial. You can’t talk about the continent’s crises and future in a vacuum.

Turkish secularism is eroding before our eyes, and the resulting cocktail of religious intolerance and social activism may even threaten the current Islamist leaders who are mixing it up.

Historian Peter Brown’s critique of Edward Gibbon also sheds light on the popular myths of American decline.

It’s still too early to render definitive judgment on the Iraq War, but it’s high time to start asking the right questions. We may need the answers sooner than we think.

Some Australian strategists have taken a shine to Beijing. If Australia’s loyalty to America can be shaken, none of America’s Asian alliances is safe.