Geithner tells Congress bank report cards need to be kept secret for public's own good. They see it as a story where one man can have a vision and successfully complete it. Indian business students find Mein Kampf inspirational. South Africans will vote for the ANC, but they&
In an effort "to make Norm Coleman go away," Democrat groups ask supporters to donate $1 a day every day Coleman refuses to concede. "The wall is the perfect crime because it creates the violence it was ostensibly built to prevent." The history of Israel'
Price declines in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Luxembourg stoke fears about deflation. Notes on how Africa may come out of the financial crisis with stronger financial systems. Are the values espoused by the Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded? Cowboy culture meets contraception in
"It is easy for a young person to become a pirate." In Somalia, pirates are akin to ganglords who can overpower locals with money, force. J.G. Ballard, author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, dies at age 78. Today's long read: After seven years
Human Rights Watch director says Obama gains diplomacy power by releasing the torture memos. With jobs drying up in Japan, government offers money to immigrants to go home (providing they don't come back). As Western shoppers desire less cashmere, Mongolian shepherds face herder loan defaults. Map of the
"Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and disturbing." Justice Dept. releases C.I.A. interrogation memos. Bipartisanship may be sparked from a simple agreement: Senators needs to eat together more often. The importance of refrigeration to the psyche, economy, and
France's Caterpillar workers strike against an economic system "that makes men, women, and entire families suffer." Bulletpoints on the state of South Africa compared to hackneyed headlines. Summary of recent deft steps taken by Pakistani and American officials to defuse a crisis. If Fred Astaire would
1,055 political parties, and 830,000 polling stations. Photo gallery and primer on India's election--the world's largest. Who's buying uranium? Lehman Brothers is selling half a million pounds of it. "NASA maintains that in some circumstances, nuclear weapons could save the
* Black carbon--soot--held responsible for 18 percent of the planet's warming. * China plays the long game by stepping vigorously into financing South American development, as it has in Asia and Africa. * The pirates could only lament their littleness before the vast number of dolphins. Chinese news agency
Spain to indict high-ranking Bush officials for giving the green light to torture. The purpose of this program is to prevent panics, not cause them. Obama administration to reveal banks' scores on stress tests. Ahmadinejad strikes conciliatory tone with regards to nukes, now that Obama's in
