Massive Arlen Specter article on his tenure as a lamp-lighter; calls for reps "to reassert themselves in our system of checks and balances." Op: Regarding torture, we can't skirt the criminal implications of what we know. Iceland's men destroyed the country's
Next month the U.S. will release photos of alleged abuses at Iraq and Afghanistan prisons--officials say none are as graphic as the Abu Ghraib images. In Moldova, the victorious Communists represent the conservative center-right--where does Russia fit in the political spectrum? A Senate Armed Services report
Borrowing a Bushism, Clinton calls Pakistan an "existential threat"; Kerry says U.S. lacks "a real strategy." Gates says disclosure of interrogation memos was inevitable. Op: I interrogated Abu Zubaydah, I didn't torture, and I got good intel. Pros and cons considered while Obama
What has happened so far is no more than the overture to the first act of this opera. Obama's 100-day mark approaches. In the past month, three woman have claimed Paraguayan President Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop, is the father of their child. TMN is still
Investigations show none of the officials who approved the use of torture bothered to learn about their nation's long-standing opposition to it. If the U.S. doesn't prosecute C.I.A. and Bush administration officials for torture crimes at home, Europe will, says the U.
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
