* Human rights activist jailed for three months for tweet criticizing Bahrain's Prime Minister. * Conspiracy theories are fun and games until someone thinks you're the Zodiac Killer. * Errol Morris would like to know if you're an optimist or a pessimist. * Glaxo faces $3bn fine for
* The dour Spanish economy explained with charts and numbers. * Kosovo told it can't join the Olympics until it gains admission to the United Nations. * Far-right extremism reaches dangerous levels in Greece. * The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in
* Report shows that drillers' frack water can rise up from more than a mile underground. * Three months later, judge Cunningham explains why there was no fiction Pulitzer this year. * Correspondence between Fitzgerald and his editor over finishing The Great Gatsby. * New game: Was that a quote from Romney or
* Past year in the U.S. has been the hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1895. * Investigation into how Gallup and other polling groups conduct studies. * How America rates countries on their efforts to prevent human trafficking. * Called not black enough, Wayne Brady offers to happily slap Bill Maher
* The New Yorker cover that would have run if the Affordable Health Care Act had been struck down. * How CNN and Fox screwed up the Supreme Court Obamacare decision. * Self-published science e-books are democratizing crackpottery; a review of Indivisible Earth: Consequences of Earth's Early Formation as
* Thousands face internet loss today as the FBI shuts down servers used by thieves. * Five signs of the Chinese economic apocalypse. * Maps measure America's recent scorching temperatures. * Washington farmers hire helicopters to blow-dry their cherries. * Innovation is now devoted to smaller-scale, less far-reaching, less conspicuous
* Job numbers fall short of expectations and barely improve over May. * Falling labor mobility in the U.S. may reflect a more efficient market. * Overhead photographs of Mexican workers carpooling. * Indian police are still administering illegal, dangerous "truth serum." * Inside the many conspiracy theories that say Arafat was
* Clinton says China and Russia must "pay a price" for blocking UN sanctions that could help topple Assad. * WSJ: In a stroke, Romney has contradicted Republicans across the country. * Romney raised $100m in June. * Global study finds Americans most likely to be anxious, followed by Colombians and New
* June 2009 Air France crash attributed to technical failure and human error. * Former teenage bomber remembers the Algerian fight for independence. * Inquiry says the Fukushima crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from collusion among regulators, the Japanese government, and the plant operator. * New Orleans now has the country's
* Nearly half of Americans don't know that the Supreme Court ruled on health care. * Iran mothballs its embargoed oil in a fleet of repainted tankers. * Ode to Rachel Maddow. * Tea Party rep says opponent should quit talking about her military service—she lost her legs in Iraq—because
