Why Does Buffalo Pay for Its Teachers to Have Plastic Surgery?

How a broken collective bargaining system has kept a ridiculous, multimillion-dollar perk alive.  Shutterstock /  Sheff  In Buffalo, New York, the heart of the American rust-belt, the public school system ...

Spain's SOPA Law: How It Works And Why It Won't

Last week—less than two months after winning control over the Spanish parliament—the right-leaning Partido Popular passed a controversial new anti-internet piracy law that will impose strict penalties on website owners who fail to remove copyrighted material from their sites. Sound familiar?