Bang for Your Buck
Two dozen people—a banker, a sex worker, a pastor, “the World’s First Publicly Traded Person”—tell us the best way to invest a single dollar.
Archive
A collection of 14232 issues
July 9, 2014
* Israel calls up reservists to replace those on duty in the West Bank, to free them for a possible ground invasion of Gaza. * Hamas fires long-range missiles into Israel, with dozens more in store. * San Francisco hates techies, techies hate being despised, and the war rages on between public
July 8, 2014
* To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the Wall Street Journal shows how today's team would cover events of 1889. * See also: History of the paper's design. * BBC Trust orders its producers to stop adding "false balance" when reporting on climate change. * London's Oxford
The Influencing Machine
When a genetic disease looms, we’re more like our parents than we’d like to believe—and when we become parents, that fear only grows.
July 7, 2014
* Over 60 women and girls escape from Boko Haram in Nigeria; more than 200 girls remain kidnapped. * Russia’s minister of culture urges Russians to shun other languages and study Russian more. * Some Russians experience buyers’ remorse after being asked to personally subsidize Crimea. * Frozen soundtrack is on course to
Past Time
The business and madness of modern sports appear, through subtle augmentation, in classics of American art.
Outside
Outsider artists draw outsider patrons, some who smell like horses. Not even the art gallery world’s aura of intimidation will keep them away.
July 1, 2014
* Blaming Iran for financing a bus bombing that killed his daughter, a New Jersey father helped uncover an international terror banking scheme. * The behind-the-scenes story of how a hacker uncovers Russia's secret money transfers to Syria's government. * Syrian TV reports on the assassination of
June 30, 2014
* Blackwater’s Iraq ops chief threatened to kill a State Dept. official in charge of investigating the heavily criticized security provider. * Sunni group leading insurgency in Iraq declares a new caliphate stretching from Iraq's Diyala province to Syria's Aleppo. * Disturbing new footage shows the violence that
New York From 1,200 Feet
Paintings of New York from the perspective of a plane flying at 1,200 feet, along the Hudson River.