Democracy leader calls for global rejection of Burmese regime's election and "prearranged outcome." Changes in global attitudes toward homosexuality and prostitution show steady disdain for sex being sold. After banning prostitution last year, Iceland now forbids strip clubs. All that is harmful about Chinese mining investment
Ten students driving to obtain scholarships slaughtered in a truck in Durango, Mexico. Photos: Muscovites in mourning. Berlusconi makes regional gains despite scandals; voter turnout is lowest in 15 years. On the Times's payout and apology to Singapore's leaders: money for access, if disdainfully done. New
North Koreans face death to smuggle out information via cell phones. Rome is under siege--notes on the Pope's and Berlusconi's taste in barriers. Harrowing account of the life and death of the Los Angeles Times's Mike Penner/Christine Daniels. Overview of the premium-
Video from inside Moscow's Lubyanka station after suicide attack. You can bomb facilities, but you can't bomb knowledge. Lucid summary of a simulation where Israel strikes Iran. Lure of adventure, not religion, motivates new wave of jihadists. Imelda Marcos is back, "with a vengeance,"
F.B.I. investigates threats against Democrats who voted for health care reform. Activist to transform Maldives atoll into "Democracy Island," a camp to learn nonviolent political change. Economist's assessment of health care reform: coverage to be expanded dramatically, but at a heavy cost to the
Reporters say Obama's bipartisan summit was deceptive, a red herring, a brilliant tactic. Q&A about Madrid's psychology emergency response team. You either believe that six million Jews died in the Holocaust or you don't. Q&A with leader of the U.
Netanyahu ends U.S. visit with no resolution; areas of disagreement remain. Op: Knowing Netanyahu would be reenergized by his speech at AIPAC, Obama and his staff set him a honey trap. Tea Partiers use centuries-old nullification tactics to challenge health care reform. Liberals mock Bush's hand-
Republicans plan vote-a-rama to embarrass Democrats with a richness of amendments to reject. Remembrance of Iran's Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, now martyr "for those who would seek reform." Op: Health care reform will create "a world that partisans of limited government should welcome.
Netanyahu gets informal treatment during White House visit; Britain expels Israeli diplomat over passports mess. Education chief kept confidential log of Chicago pols seeking spots in top schools. Video: Biden calls reform "a big fucking deal." See also: Brief history of D.C.'s bad language. Nestle
After 60 years of effort, the Wiesenthal Center's sixth-most-wanted Nazi is convicted. More than 160 arrested in connection with the Jos massacre in Nigeria. Economic double standard found in banning ivory but not tuna. India to weaponize the bhut jolokia, the world's hottest chili.
