11 August 2008: Afternoon

President Saakashvili: If Georgia falls, this will also mean the fall of the West in the entire former Soviet Union and beyond.

Medvedev: Give us a minute, we'll be done in Georgia soon.

Medium-length primer on the history of the Georgia-Russia conflict.

Considering Putin's gains in Georgia.

Anticipating the week in news in Russia, Georgia, elsewhere.

First-hand knowledge of comfortable lives in "the most dangerous nation on earth," Pakistan.

If U.S. officials want to bandy war-like phrases, couldn't they call a linguist first?

If you think the McCain-Obama race has been hostile so far, wait until after the conventions.

Obama prefers Batman to Iron Man, the Stones to the Beatles.

Denmark as model actor in achieving energy independence.

Considering a built-in snowball effect for the obesity epidemic: babies predisposed to obesity.

Losing weight may be easier if you treat it like a role-playing dungeon crawler.

Godard's greatness is cemented, but are his films any good?

Print for the commute: Dark inclinations are what make us endlessly fascinating--and essentially human.