* List of countries said to be treating slavery victims as criminals or ignoring them entirely. * Guatemalan vacation ruined by gang-bangers—how the War on Drugs sustains the drug problem. * Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden. * Peruvian-made pisco attempting a
* In Pakistan, preference for boy babies has led to an alarmingly skewed gender ratio at birth and orphanages filled with girls. * Interactive timeline tracks Obama administration's drone death tolls, finds the claims don't add up. * Unlike previous fad intoxicants, the hysteria about bath salts seems well
* U.S. household net worth plummeted 35% from 2005 to 2010. * The economic history of the last 2,000 years in one graph. * Circulation drops at al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine. * Doctors quiet the war on bacteria, as we learn more about the 100 trillion microbes that have evolved
* EU commission president blames eurozone crisis on American banks and capitalism. * Researchers conclude that robbing banks is a terrible way to make money. * Greece's Sunday election means it now faces "the sweat of fiscal austerity," but that doesn't mean it's back to
* Hillary: I [understand] what people's political problems are, even in authoritarian regimes, because everybody's got politics. * Not only is food aid ineffective in helping nations in conflict, it can prolong the violence. * NYPL lunch exhibit to feature working Automat—though it will dispense recipes, not food.
* First relief, then skepticism as Greece votes for the pro-austerity New Democracy party. * Sunday elections give Socialists comfortable power seat for reshaping France. * Taglines sought for new Karl Marx Mastercard. * Explainer on why until recently Berlin rents have been so cheap. * Adam Gopnik on Americans' Olympic fervor. * Interviews
* Interactive walkthrough to the impending Supreme Court decision on the 2010 Affordable Heath Care Act. * An open letter to the state of Pennsylvania. * How the hyphen disappeared from "Czecho-Slovakia." * Germany's North-South divide highlights cultural differences such as the preferred beer, sausage, and card game.
* Netanyahu would rather America do the bombing, and he has much more confidence in Romney's belligerence than in Obama's. * Representative censored for saying "vagina" during abortion discussion. * Oregon man hospitalized with the plague—on average 11 cases of the disease are reported in the
In our latest TMN Weekender, a selection of stories from our archive by children of fathers (and fathers of children). Ready to read here on TMN or in an e-book you can export to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, etc.
* Notes on the recent full-blown outbreak of UN Derangement Syndrome. * U.S. now running a spy network of small air bases around Africa—overseen by Special Operations forces, not the CIA. * Report on Spain's independent rock scene with sound clips and videos. * Voyager I probe, launched in
