Pro-gun sentiment in America is rising, not falling, and polling suggests softening public support for stricter gun laws. Op: Kim Jong Il must pay a price for his defiance, otherwise we should fear a proliferation chain reaction. Mexican drug-dealers' families protest being targeted; drug dealers threaten politicans&
They have become like dead people walking. There is no life in their eyes. A rare report from the forgotten Mogadishu, on the verge of collapse. In Uganda, a son searches for his father's remains 30 years after his anonymous execution. It's a steamy, sulfur-filled
New Maira Kalman blog post visits a military base for Memorial Day. Kalman among this year's recipients of TMN Editors' Awards for Online Excellence. Retired general says we haven't seen additional Abu Ghraib photos because they're too indecent. Your Saturday morning read: Errol
Fresh bomb blasts in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kill at least 10, injure 70. Breakdown of the dissolution of G.M., soon to be called Government Motors. Blog details advice for soldiers deploying to Afghanistan. Newt Gingrich does what he does best, just now in 140 characters or less.
U.N. Human Rights Council decides allegedly horrific Sri Lankan camps warrant no investigation. Never read about Hitler on the bus. Conclusions after a year of reading books about Nazis. German scholars struggle with the implications of Google Books, issue complaints into the ether. Germany's Donald Duck is
With the tally holding firm at five states, California's ruling puts the heart of same-sex marriage squarely in New England. North Korea's recent provocation raises the question of whether we're still at war. Sixty-five years to the day of the first Normandy
Unconvincing argument says the Taliban's bombing in Lahore is a sign of desperation. In case you missed it: the New York Review primer on Pakistan. Policeman who shot demonstrator in 1967--igniting protests and reshaping politics of West Germany--was an East German spy. Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured
After North Korea's nuclear tests, Japan's ruling party will likely use the "political gift" to claw back a lead in polls--potentially breaking its pacifistic constitution. The leader of Japan's opposition party appears set to end a half-century, nepotistic stranglehold on
Sotomayer picked to be the next Supreme, known for ending the 1995 baseball strike. Previous four Supreme nominees all got hearings before the Senate's August break. Instapaper for the commute: Big Texas lessons on hell in health care. Gourevitch: I have seen all of the Abu Ghraib photos;
President Obama's moral argument on Guantánamo is unimpeachable; too bad Cheney sounds like the straight-talker. Krauthammer: Here's the Obama three-step: (a) excoriate the Bush policy, (b) unveil cosmetic changes, (c) adopt the Bush policy. Chomsky: Torture is an old American practice, and among the
