* As U.S. politics tosses around immigration reform, high numbers of migrants are still dying while trying to cross the border. * In blackout-prone Baghdad, residents call on the "generator man" to deliver much-needed electricity. * Former KKK leader David Duke endorses anti-semitic former Black Panther for
* Prosecutors in Norway call for mass killer Breivik to be deemed insane. * Supreme Court puts off deciding whether rock stars have a right to drop the F-bomb on TV. * Supremes' momentous healthcare decision could be announced today. Or not. * Belgian academic describes being tortured in Syria. * Horrible stories
* Obama has a unique opportunity to rebuild a mutually beneficial alliance between Turkey and Israel. * World's largest ministry for gay Christians no longer trying to "cure" homosexuality. * Montana GOP ends efforts to make homosexual acts illegal, reinforces its opposition to gay marriage. * The latest wave of
* 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.
