Looking to get involved in your community? Try teleworking. A new study shows that people are 44 percent more likely to regularly volunteer if they have flexible work arrangements, like flexible schedules and the option to work remotely. The Canadian government released a report yesterday (h/t Globe and Mail) that looks at the link between flexible work arrangements and […]

American employers are scrambling to hire foreign skilled workers. And for the first time in five years, they will hit the allotted annual visa quota just under a week into the process. The WSJ reports: U.S. companies each year can sponsor a total of 65,000 foreigners with at least a bachelor’s degree for a so-called H-1B […]

On March 21, 2013, Law and Religion Headlines, the very useful online newsletter from Emory University, carried a summary of an interview on the BBC with Justin Welby, the new Archbishop of Canterbury. He is an interesting and appealing figure. Born in 1956, he had an elite education at Eton and Cambridge, then an impressive […]

Drilling giants like Exxon and Shell are safer and more ecologically responsible than their smaller competition. In many industries, scaling up production actually leads to more mistakes and quality control issues, but oddly enough, when it comes to fracking shale in Pennsylvania, bigger companies violate regulations the least. The WSJ reports: As big energy companies buy out […]

One of the ongoing perplexities of President Obama’s Syria policy has been the stark contrast between his muscular rhetoric and halting, hesitant actions. On the one hand, he has insisted that the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad “must” go and has predicted that his fall is all but assured. But on the other, he has thus far […]

Red tape may soon be a thing of the past in Los Angeles. According to Yahoo, the city has just released a new app that lets citizens communicate directly with city officials: [It] will let residents report potholes, pay city utility bills and look up dog parks at the tap of a virtual button.Instead of calling […]

The sweet scent of cheap gas is luring manufacturing back to the United States. The German chemicals company BASF is one of many energy-intensive firms looking to open plants stateside. The Washington Post reports: Here in Ludwigshafen[, Germany], many people view the United States as the land of the future. Since 2009, BASF has channeled more than […]

Greece’s radical neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, has become the country’s third greatest political force, according to polls. Now it’s seeking to put down roots “wherever there are Greeks,” including in Germany, Australia, Canada, and the US. The Guardian reports: “Like-minded groups in Europe and Russia have given the party ideological, and sometimes financial, support to […]

Free online education is starting to make a lot of people nervous, and for good reason. If done right, MOOCs could pose a serious threat to many current colleges and universities. Andrew Delbanco writes in The New Republic: The dark side of this bright dream is the fear that online education could burst what appears to […]

28,000 rivers have disappeared from China over the past few decades, according to an official study by China’s Ministry of Water Resources. More than half the rivers with catchment areas of over 100 square kilometers have disappeared since the 1990s. Many of the rivers that remain are poisoned by pollution. So is the air. Outdoor air pollution led to 1.2 million […]