* Interactive history in photographs of recent uprisings in the Middle East. * Voters line up in Egypt, beginning an election timetable that lasts until March. * China has many female entrepreneurs and high-flying managers, though male attitudes about family haven't changed. * Beijing graffiti advertises jobs. * Drought in the South
* State Dept. fingers Egypt's military rulers—"a government in power that the U.S. largely supports." * Story of the American torturer on trial in Guadalupe that's being ignored by the American media. * Q&A with the new Times comedy critic. * For female writers,
Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but that doesn’t mean it’s not celebrated elsewhere. And each of those celebrations—in Liberia, in Leiden, in the South Pacific—give us fresh reasons to be grateful for our own messed-up version.
* Latitude mystery in Europe—why high unemployment, low productivity, low investment are mostly found in the south. * South African legislators pass secrets bill to protect corrupt officials from press scrutiny. * Putin's secretary says boos were for an American fighter, not Putin; Russians tell American fighter, No, we were
We asked you to show us how close the recession is to your doorstep. Here’s our latest entry. (Send in yours.) {image-1} Name: Miranda Everitt Location: Two miles from my apartment in Oakland, Calif. Recovery/downturn: I took this photo on assignment for the Alameda County Community Food
* U.S. embassy in Beijing embarrassed by private groups' ability to out-produce cultural exchanges. * Pictures of the ongoing meme "Casually pepper spraying everything cop." * Making a meme of pepper-spray cop doesn't trivialize the event—it spreads the news. * Other things the internet can
I know it’s fun to rag on Thanksgiving, but I like it, crazy relatives and all—mostly because mine involves copious amounts of white wine and Patsy Cline (which would improve any day of the year, if one could get away with it). My sister and I have Thanksgiving
When the annual trip home becomes a customer-service visit to “fix the internet,” sometimes even bourbon can't save the day. We gathered a half-dozen of our favorite tech writers and editors to help anticipate the headaches of 2011.
* Tahrir Square braces for crowds as protests in Egyptian cities enter fourth day of demonstrations. * Q&A for Egypt's new protests. * "Every cycle, the U.S. political system becomes more polarized and more dysfunctional, at greater human cost." * The chances of anyone existing are one
All year long, we keep track of the books we think will be great candidates for the tournament—books we loved, books we talked about, books we heard discussed on a plane. You know the rules: As long as it was a novel published in English in 2011, we’ll
