* Putin, overtaking Obama as leader of the world's Syria agenda, said to be "relishing" his role as statesman. * Putin in the Times: It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. * Maureen Orth's 2000 Putin profile for Vanity
* The richest Americans earned the highest share of the nation's income in the past 100 years. * Here's the awkward thing for Labour: the economy is slowly picking up steam. * Citizen militias fighting drug gangs in the hills of central Mexico are becoming better armed and more
* Obama delays Syria military vote he was certain to lose in favor of exploring Russia's proposal for international monitors. * The lessons of Weiner and Spitzer. * From 2009, Tom Junod's haunting essay about the photo of the man plummeting from the World Trade Center. * Poems by Auden,
In early New England, anyone who stood near an open door or window faced mortal danger. A conversation with a woman who hunts for gravestones with epitaphs describing death by lightning strike.
* Following days of violent protests, Indian court finds four guilty of raping and murdering a student on a bus in December. * The war in Syria: what it looks like when six million people are displaced. * Desperate to make the case for military action in Syria, the White House invokes the
* Even within the extremely elite confines of [Harvard Business School], the ultrawealthy are segregating themselves. * Linguists: It's "syllabuses," not "syllabi." * Related: How to make syllabub. * For the past 40 years, the daughter of the man who designed and built Auschwitz has lived in Northern
This summer in Manhattan, it was important to wait in line for an hour to see light designed by James Turrell. Many bought the hype. Many were angry afterward.
* Haunting photos from Syrian refugee city in Jordan comprised entirely of tents that 144,000 now call home. * Spiegel reports the NSA can tap into personal data on nearly every smartphone. * How Pat Robertson used a charity mission in war-torn Rwanda as a front to further his diamond mine
* Brief rundown of Syria's many rebel groups, majority of which are under the nominal control of the Supreme Military Council. * Statistical overview of prison suicides. * Interactive visualizations of stop-and-frisk policing based on NYPD data. * For teenagers, e-cigarettes could be a gateway to tobacco addiction rather
Multi-layered photographs show people’s inner lives merging with their environments—suggesting that what we see of reality is less than what actually exists.
