By David Shamah via Times of Israel While the world worried on Wednesday about the implications of what may be the largest denial of service, or DDOS, attack ever — as two European groups feuded over what...

By Lexington via Economist American pundits spend a good deal of their time pondering partisan intensity, and how it has sharply increased over the years. At some point in such discussions, it is traditional to note that...

By Paul Vigna via WSJ Investors got a prime example this week of what happens when officials go off message and offer up their unvarnished thoughts. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the formerly obscure head of the Eurogroup,  said the Cyprus...

By Andrew Buncombe via Independent Locals say that you feel it in the evening rush hour, pressing into the subway carriage at the Dhoby Ghaut station to discover there’s just a little less room than you’re used...

By Dean Baker via CEPR Ezra Klein put up a blog post last night on the corruption of national politics and the media. It showed graphs from the International Federation of Health Care Plans that compared the...

By H. “Corky” Johnson via Op-Ed News While there was the usual glitz and glamour at this year’s Oscars, the star not strolling down the red carpet was actually an intelligence arm of the U.S. government. By bestowing...

By Michael Wolff via Guardian Seeking CEO for $3bn market cap NYSE company. Candidate should be adept manager with turnaround and restructuring experience. Time Warner is shortly to jettison Time Inc, the world’s largest magazine publisher –...

By Kai Ryssdal via Marketplace You cruise down the aisle of most any grocery store, and what you’re seeing — despite what you might think — isn’t properly called just “food.” Most of those items are what...

By Eugenia Siapera via Guardian To say that journalism is in trouble is a massive understatement: decreased revenues, layoffs, newspaper closures, all show a field perilously close to the end. So the release of the Tow Center’s...

By Somi Das via News Laundry The United Kingdom has traditionally been the champion of press freedom. Yet, over the last few weeks, terms such as press regulation, exemplary damages, press code of conduct have kept the...