Canadians are so sensible they even have the sense not to brag. How Canada has avoided the bailouts. In Afghanistan, Karzai approves law to turn back women's rights--opponents accuse him of grabbing at Shia votes. "Our main export to Russia is not wine, but 'thieves
Sarkozy threatens to walk away from G20 if demands for stricter financial regulations aren't met. Photos and stories of recently laid-off workers from all over U.S. Animated photos of world landmarks as they dim their lights to observe "Earth Hour." Video: From 1958, Aldous
The search for information resembles a walk through an overbuilt quarter of an ancient capital. How Wikipedia, like buildings and cities, can learn. A current favorite resource: the Hitchcockwiki. I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds. Michael Osinsk tells the story of his own Manhattan Project. Today in
Two months into Obama's term, Glenn Beck's "mad as hell" rhetoric sends Fox News back to the top of political cable. Fox launches "The Fox Nation," a website with an "Our Purpose" page rather than "About Us." Brazilian
U.S. Patent Office bans "business-method" patents on ideas rather than implementation. An explanation of video-game brain-fitness software, its supposed science, and game recommendations. Study shows playing computer games effectively treats amblyopia, or "lazy eye." Is there a richer, deeper, more textured universe
Brazil's president says poor, non-white people shouldn't bear the burden of a crisis caused by white, blue-eyed people. The war in Afghanistan is on track to being the longest in U.S. history. New Maira Kalman column about the kind of government she likes.
It takes two sides to have a fight, and there's really only one side left in Baghdad. As Alpine glaciers melt, so do the borders between Italy and Switzerland. A plasma storm from the sun could wipe out electronics, leaving us 90 seconds from catastrophe. "One in
Iran accepts U.S. invitation to Afghanistan meeting. E.U. president, recently ousted by his own parliament, calls Obama's recession remedies "the road to hell." Without assistance and/or a five-day week, the Postal Service says it's going out of business. Obamas reported
U.S. officials learn Pakistani spy wing directly supports the Taliban, Afghanistan militants with money, supplies, and intelligence. As Democrats' budget plans go awry in closed-door meetings, the president pays a visit, goes "vintage Obama." Historian John Hope Franklin, chronicler of American racial strife and author
Grim records set when Japanese exports fell by nearly half year-on-year in February. Hitchens: "It's high time the United States cut off any support for Israel that can be used even indirectly for settler activity." Clinton may have to deal with the U.S.
