* Prosecutors in Norway call for mass killer Breivik to be deemed insane. * Supreme Court puts off deciding whether rock stars have a right to drop the F-bomb on TV. * Supremes' momentous healthcare decision could be announced today. Or not. * Belgian academic describes being tortured in Syria. * Horrible stories
* Obama has a unique opportunity to rebuild a mutually beneficial alliance between Turkey and Israel. * World's largest ministry for gay Christians no longer trying to "cure" homosexuality. * Montana GOP ends efforts to make homosexual acts illegal, reinforces its opposition to gay marriage. * The latest wave of
Our film scholars and Wes Anderson watchers, along with movie critic Michelle Orange, evaluate the filmmaker’s latest release, “Moonrise Kingdom,” where people get struck by lightning as a matter of course.
* List of countries said to be treating slavery victims as criminals or ignoring them entirely. * Guatemalan vacation ruined by gang-bangers—how the War on Drugs sustains the drug problem. * Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden. * Peruvian-made pisco attempting a
The next time jet lag ruins your day—exhausted, yawning, blurry-eyed, fiending for any means of correction—what if you were to stop looking for a cure inside purgatory and, instead, embrace the cloud?
* In Pakistan, preference for boy babies has led to an alarmingly skewed gender ratio at birth and orphanages filled with girls. * Interactive timeline tracks Obama administration's drone death tolls, finds the claims don't add up. * Unlike previous fad intoxicants, the hysteria about bath salts seems well
* U.S. household net worth plummeted 35% from 2005 to 2010. * The economic history of the last 2,000 years in one graph. * Circulation drops at al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine. * Doctors quiet the war on bacteria, as we learn more about the 100 trillion microbes that have evolved
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* EU commission president blames eurozone crisis on American banks and capitalism. * Researchers conclude that robbing banks is a terrible way to make money. * Greece's Sunday election means it now faces "the sweat of fiscal austerity," but that doesn't mean it's back to
* Hillary: I [understand] what people's political problems are, even in authoritarian regimes, because everybody's got politics. * Not only is food aid ineffective in helping nations in conflict, it can prolong the violence. * NYPL lunch exhibit to feature working Automat—though it will dispense recipes, not food.
