The Chinese Party!
A redacted version of Mao Tse-tung’s “Little Red Book,” illustrated with photographs of contemporary China, becomes a story for modern times.
Archive
A collection of 14284 issues
May 19, 2014
* Severe flooding in the Balkans has displaced at least 24,300 people and dislodged some of the 100,000 landmines in the region. * Eighty years after two scientists first theorized how light turns into matter, three physicists devise an experiment to prove it. * California has released thousands of Pakistani wasps
May 16, 2014
* The BJP, India's Hindu-nationalist party, looks to sweep the elections, making Narendra Modi the likely Prime Minister. * GOP gubernatorial primary debate in Idaho hijacked by unlikely candidates, including a biker with "a direct line to God." * After weeks of solitary confinement and police interrogations in
Main Street, USA
Sinclair Lewis despised his hometown in Minnesota. It disliked him, too, especially after being lampooned in a bestselling novel that mocked the citizens for their small-town ways. These days, though, he’s all they’ve got.
May 15, 2014
* The NSA reform bill only limits the surface of the agency's spying. * EU ruling gives people the right to ask Google to remove information about them. * Among those asking Google to remove links: a disgraced ex-politician, a convicted pedophile, a doctor with negative patient feedback. * FCC meets
May 14, 2014
* Turkish mining disaster kills more than 200, with 200-plus others thought to be still underground. * US planes start flying missions to find the more than 200 Nigerian teenage girls abducted by Boko Haram almost a month ago. * Eight days ago, Boko Haram destroyed the small Nigerian town of Gamburo,
May 13, 2014
* Scientists say the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet, now underway, will begin an "unstoppable" chain reaction of rising sea levels. * India, the world's largest democracy, goes to the polls. * Iran claims to have replicated an American drone. * Underwater explorer might have discovered Christopher Columbus&
Big Water
The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry. A native reports from the wine country, where fires loom.
May 12, 2014
* With 104 billionaires in the UK, Britain now has more billionaires per capita than any other country. * Day in the life of a billionaire's butler. * London restaurant imposes fine on customers who don't finish what they picked up from the lunch buffet. * Putin suspiciously scores six
May 9, 2014
* Out of all US citizens, men in Portland are most likely to ride a bike to work. * In 39 states (but not New York), Brooklyn is now the most common female baby name beginning with B. * Iowa’s never elected a woman to Congress, but that may change, with many