* According to the UN's climate change report, for Earth to remain habitable we must cut carbon emissions to "near zero" by 2100. * The global economic crisis of 2007 and 2008 temporarily reduced emissions but didn't change the trend, the report says. * UN suggests fracking
* Seymour Hersh on Obama's secret "rat line," funneling weapons from Turkey to the Syrian opposition, including some jihadists. * Related: Photographer finds art in a parking lot of retired B-52 bombers. * The fewer babies Americans give birth to, the more small dogs they appear to buy.
* Pro-Russia citizens of Eastern Ukraine take over buildings and wait for Russia, feeling exposed. * Helpful, relatively brief primer on the recent saga of Ukraine, Putin, and the West's culpability. * American history told through first pitches thrown by Presidents, from Taft to FDR. * Alabama’s athletic revenues last
Her neighbors remember her as “the bag lady,” but Vivian Maier was secretly a street photographer who would leave behind an artistic trove that captured the public’s imagination.
* One in six Americans can find Ukraine on a map; the farther away people guessed, the more likely they were to support intervention. * At least 20 students stabbed in a Pittsburgh area high school. * Low-income housing in Los Angeles has evolved from dull, ugly buildings to some of the
Dreams of a Matalin-Carville romance tempt a young Washington journalist covering the death of a dictator to cross party lines in pursuit of love.
Photographs from a new book of American public libraries—some famous, some neglected, some both—plus an essay by former Poet Laureate Charles Simic.
* Today President Obama will sign an executive action requiring federal contractors to report salary data broken down by gender and race. * Lies, omissions, and a nefarious Polish general: a day in the life of Russian state TV. * The less people know about where Ukraine is located on a map, the
* Analysis of India's demographics, as the country prepares to vote, finds more than half the population under 24. * Amtrak's rules in big cities are bizarre, ignoring 150 years of accumulated wisdom about boarding trains; they are also easily avoidable. * The longer we wait to impose a
Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.
