Print for the commute: Remembering when America previously debated "water cure" torture, and then forgot. Safety invoked while making the case for sharing our nuclear secrets. The last time the city went more than a month without a killing was a 40-day period in 1963. Newark hits
In Afghanistan, 80 are killed by a suicide bomber on Sunday, then 37 more at a market on Monday. In Pakistan, voters brave militant violence to have their say. Obama speeches bear resemblance to those from Gov. Deval Patrick--though the governor already gave the candidate his words to use.
Richard Russo’s book picks; Unrecounted; My Unwritten Books; Torture and Democracy; The Learners; Gone to Ground; The Poem of a Life; Girl Meets Boy; The Forger; Artists in Exile; The Lodger Shakespeare; Nazi Literature in the Americas; The Point; Glimmer Train No. 66
For photographers, the Polaroid was toy and tool, means and end, and Mapplethorpe handled it magnificently: roughly with sex, playfully with himself, carefully with faces, studiously on the body.
Analysis: Among the costliest decisions... Clinton's presidential campaign has made this year was to largely cede caucus states to Barack Obama. Obama supporters send a few dollars more every time he inspires them--and it's adding up. Al Gore ties sub-prime crisis to carbon assets,
Shaking off the no-TV DTs, Meave Gallagher celebrates the end of the writers’ strike with a look back at what happened on the wasteland over the last three months.
U.S. to shoot down out-of-control spy satellite--impact with the Earth could pose a danger due to rocket fuel, government secrets. "Instead of needlessly frightening the country, you should work with Congress in a calm, constructive way." Dems block intelligence bill, admonish Bush over wiretap
Soaring rhetoric is getting the short straw this campaign season, so how about some pointed poesy?
"I think the message is 'Don't do anything until we get this sorted out.'" New study disputes last week's study about diabetes treatment. Evidence suggests Georgian billionaire Patarkatsishvili died from natural causes in his London home. Foiled al Qaeda plot could have
Hometown: I’ve lived in New York for more than 20 years. Your first novel, Grey, is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Has 2008 presented any developments that point to the future as you’ve depicted it? Unfortunately, yes. Especially with the writer’s strike, there’s
