While we're throwing the lower echelons onto the global market, doctors (and specialists in particular) are increasingly insulated from market forces.
A Mexican militia, battling Michoacan drug cartel, has American roots →
Many were U.S. immigrants who came back, some voluntarily but most often not, to the desiccated job market in the state of Michoacan and found life under the Knights Templar drug cartel that controls the area almost unlivable. They took up arms because they were financially abused by the extortion rackets run by the Templars. Because they had family killed or wounded by their enemies. Because carrying a silver-plated handgun and collecting defeated narcos’ designer cellphones as war booty is more invigorating than packing cucumbers. Because they get to feel, for once, the sensation of being in charge.
Syria's uprising within an uprising →
More on the factionalism of the Syrian opposition groups.
Bloggers get the same libel protection as traditional journalists, federal court rules →
What's the difference between a blogger and a journalist? Congress is still debating that question, but today a federal appeals court ruled that there's no difference when it comes to defamation.
Supreme Court will decide if warrantless cellphone searches are constitutional →
The Supreme Court has today decided to rule on whether or not the warrantless search of cellphones is legal under the constitution...
The Court will review two cases on the subject of warrantless search, and each case differs crucially on whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to search phones...
Arrests spreading under Nigeria anti-gay law →
Arrests have spread across Nigeria as dozens more people perceived to be gay have been rounded up and questioned, activists said Friday, describing another wave of police attention unleashed by a wide-ranging new anti-gay law.
Uganda president refuses to sign anti-gay law →
The only positive in the whole article.
Last-Ditch Effort Emerges to Restore Order in Central African Republic →
...an unlikely experiment in instant nation-building is underway: a vote for president. Inspired equally by desperation and pressure from abroad, a “national transition council” of 135 rebels, rivals, politicians and everyone in between is making a last-ditch lunge for order, hoping to choose a new leader for this fractured country within days.