U.S. considers transferring Guantanamo detainees to a maximum-security facility in Michigan or Kansas. As we brace for H1N1's return in the fall, four experts weigh in on what to do to avoid what we're hoping to avoid. Nearly two decades after Navy Capt. Michael
Wall Street banks profit hugely by ripping off the Fed; a price we have to pay, says Frank. Measuring investments in Africa post-credit crisis: The boom has waned, but not for China. From Stalin to Mr. Bean is some descent. A take-down of Gordon Brown. Intelligence reform chilled
Cuomo's office finds nine bailed-out banks paid around 5,000 employees bonuses of more than $1 million each for 2008. A profile of lawyer John Durham, who's rumored to be tapped with the job of investigating torture during the Bush years. Video: The Daily Show
Military spending bill has $6.9 billion in new vehicles the defense secretary says are unneeded. Assessment of Cantor and Ryan as potential saviors for the Republican party. Anti-Depression policy responses tried to turn back the clock on the changes brought by technology. They failed. Op: The threat of
Dust storms threaten Iraq's ecosystem; nearly 80% of food must be imported, diverting money from reconstruction. In China, more than 1,200 textile workers fall ill with vomiting, temporary paralysis; health officials blame mass hysteria. The cannibalistic relationship between media and advertising might leave us with neither industry
Less absurd than any "racist" video of Glenn Beck's: paintings of the president naked with unicorns. Cottage industry grows to help physicists observe quantum behavior at a real-world scale. Pynchon's new stoned-detective potboiler may stick to certain conventions, but he still goes
In a bold post-sovereignty move, Iraqi troops raid an Iranian opposition group long sheltered by the U.S. The recession's effect on children: more teen pregnancy, higher infant mortality, lower birth weight. "We are an overflow community, and there's not much overflow from Manhattan
Clinton is so far a dogged, superb secretary of state; too bad the media only portrays her as an almost-was. Instapaper for the commute: Clancy Martin's account of getting sober. Account of how the ocean's surface is bizarre--a sheet of jelly that's
After North America, South America is the region most affected by H1N1, which has hit hard both economically and in terms of public health. Caught in China's swine flu dragnet, an ill daughter writes a journal with her mother, back home in the U.S. To cut hospital
The power of the Blue Dogs was on full display Friday, when they humiliated California Rep. Henry Waxman, one of the most liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill. Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret, and Kim Jong Nam, son of Il, rank of the list of the world's worst sons.
