Britain's state-financed dental service, which, stretched beyond its limit, no longer serves everyone and no longer even pretends to try, says the New York Times.
Britain has too few public dentists for too many people:
At the beginning of the year, just 49 per cent of the adults and 63 per cent
Redlining or the practice of refusing people bank loans based on their address has long been outlawed in the United States as discriminatory. But in Europe, although many countries are facing increasingly tense relations with their minority populations, there has been little debate about how financial discrimination
Bolivia’s energy nationalisation affected not only American investors, but investments by, and contracts with, fellow socialist governments, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD). For democracies like Brazil, it could be a turning point, says IBD.
President Evo Morales “nationalised” Bolivia’s natural gas resources not just by decree, but also by force.
India is rapidly evolving into Asia’s innovation centre, leaving China in the dust. So what is the country’s secret weapon? Intellectual property-rights protection, say Richard Wilder, counsel to the Association for Competitive Technology, and Pravin Anand, managing partner of Anand and Anand in New Delhi, India.
Thanks to international treaties
If there were lingering doubts that teachers unions are the worms in the apple of the American education system, take a look at the monumental setback for school reform in Florida, says the Wall Street Journal.
Last week, the unions in Tallahassee bullied all but one Democrat and four Republicans
