The latest Gallup polls measuring Americans’ confidence in the nation’s institutions have been released, and the news is not good. Newspapers, banks, and small businesses all took a hit, while gains for the Congress, the Presidency, and the criminal justice system were relatively minor. One of the largest drops was for public schools. According to […]

More bad news for law school grads: increasingly sophisticated computing technology is eliminating entry-level jobs at law firms.Judges are beginning to allow the use of “predictive coding” in cases involving millions of (often extraneous) legal documents. As the Wall Street Journal explains, predictive coding is the use of algorithms to determine which documents are relevant to […]

Call it a pivot. Call it a rebalancing. Call it what you will. Whatever the label, it is clear that America’s commitment to Asia-Pacific is continuing to deepen. New Zealand has joined Australia in welcoming a closer relationship with the United States.New Zealand’s defense minister was in Washington yesterday affixing his signature to an agreement […]

To mark the anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day-War, in which Israel defeated multiple Arab armies and acquired the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, and East Jerusalem, the Israeli National Archives has declassified hitherto unseen transcripts of the top secret government deliberations that took place following Israel’s remarkable victory. The plan that emerged in […]

In 2008, one of Obama’s highest-profile speeches was delivered not in America but on the streets of Berlin. In front of a crowd of 200,000 starstruck Germans waving American flags, Obama laid out his plans for a new direction in American foreign policy. Unlike his predecessor, he promised, he would revive America’s world image, be […]

After two days of futile talks in Moscow between Iran and representatives of the six world powers, it appears that Tehran has no interest in striking a deal any time soon. The negotiations had been hailed by many diplomats as the best chance in years for a breakthrough that would halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions without […]

For all the hullabaloo over fancy “green jobs” programs, the traditional “brown energy” sector has created the most actual jobs during the recession. This should hardly be surprising to anyone who’s been following Via Meadia, but sometimes it helps to have a visual representation of the situation to illustrate just how clear the data really […]

On June 13, 2012, The Boston Globe gave ample space to the coverage of an event that took place in federal court here. Judge Douglas Woodlock sentenced Catherine Greig to eight years in prison for the crime of harboring a fugitive. The fugitive is James “Whitey” Bulger, who was once a prominent figure in the […]

Pakistan’s descent into political chaos is picking up speed. The last week has seen corruption allegations undermine the integrity of one of the country’s top television channels as well as the family of the chief justice of the Supreme Court. Now comes news that the very same chief justice has dismissed Prime Minister Yousaf Raza […]

Asians are now the fastest-growing immigrant group in America, and as the Boston Herald reports, these new immigrants are generally educated and culturally well-adjusted upon arrival: In fact, U.S. Asians, who trace their roots to dozens of countries in the Far East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, are arguably the most highly educated immigrant […]