Some 20,000 protestors crammed into Taksim Square, the center of modern Istanbul, last Sunday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attack by Armenian troops on ethnic Azeris in the town of Khojaly in Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Baku calls the incursion a genocide. Several protestors referenced the recent Armenian Genocide bill in France as […]

A flurry of economic data has buoyed financial markets of late. One important piece of news was the announcement of another 530 billion euros in cheap funding being released by the European Central Bank to the eurozone’s battered banking system. But as a story in today’s FT notes, this recent move isn’t as encouraging as […]

It turns out that computer-assisted review isn’t the only way new technologies are upending the legal profession. A recent article in Slate discusses how for the past few years a small organization has achieved success at fighting “patent trolls” by crowd-sourcing research to entrepreneurial amateurs with the lure of cash rewards.Patent trolls, organizations that hoard large numbers […]

While the Oxford ethicists who justified infanticide have made the most shocking news Via Meadia has seen in quite a while, it’s not for lack of competition. In another shocking story from Dallas, it appears that a local doctor has been perpetrating the largest case of Medicare fraud by a single doctor in the long […]

Since I took a look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for The American Interest late last year, the future of both agencies has remained uncharted by Congress. My piece offered a brief history of the Depression-era birth of Fannie Mae and its younger thrift-inspired sibling, Freddie Mac. For much of that history, these government-sponsored […]

The American Interest notes with deep sorrow and regret the passing of James Q. Wilson (May 27, 1931–March 2, 2012), eminent American public policy scholar and a member of the AI’s editorial board. He was 80.Update:Francis Fukuyama on James Q. Wilson.Wilson in the AI:The Sources of American Conduct, Autumn 2005A Quarter Century of Broken Windows […]

In what may become a landmark moment for the legal profession, a New York District Court Judge has issued an opinion—the first of its kind—approving the use of “computer-assisted review” by law firms in an upcoming case. The decision allows both sides’ lawyers to use computer programs to scan through large amounts of data relevant […]

The news that many evil bankers are fleeing New York City, pink slips in hand, will surely cheer the Occupy Wall Street crowd . But Salt Lake City has even more reason to be happy about this turn of events.Reuters reports that Goldman Sachs is planning to add 300 new employees to its already growing […]

Recent grumbling by certain emerging powers, notably China and Brazil, has led to speculation that America’s 67-year claim on the presidency of the World Bank might be weakening. Declinists everywhere have been poised to add this item to their eulogies of American global prominence.The declinists will have to back down, at least in this case. […]

An American company, Envia, has tested a new lithium-ion battery that will allow an electric car to travel 300 miles at half the price of the current model. The battery has set a new world record in energy density, and the company aims to ready it for large-scale production in a mere 18 months. If it holds up […]