Bob from Brooklyn is the voice of reason: “Hey, Tone, this Derek Jeter controversy is a reflection of our society. You know, there’s gotta be a story every 10 minutes. Jeter gets hurt, the Yankees win without him, and all of a sudden he’s a bum. It’s
* A new book reveals Hitler's plan to rebuild the Reich should his empire fall--complete with talking dogs. * A Spielberg letter about Indiana Jones casting. * A victim's daughter and a boss's son stand up to the mafia in Naples, where "the system"
* White House turns against Syria's Assad, stopping short of demanding he step down. * Human Rights Watch urges Obama, with "overwhelming evidence," to investigate torture sanctioned by Bush & Co. * Blood phones: Minerals in your pocket perpetuate war in the DRC. * Ehrenreich: As wars become fought entirely
* On the trail of bin Laden, CIA set up fake vaccinations to gather DNA evidence. * Harvard grads at the top of everything, except in Canada. * Things state flags are sometimes saying. * First known for designing Central Park, Olmsted became famous for his Civil War reportage on Southern life. * Polar bears&
Allan Seager was a student at Oxford when he contracted tuberculosis. What happened next made him one of America’s greatest writers—declared the heir to Anderson and Hemingway—ever to be forgotten. Yet one of Seager’s short stories endures in ways that none of Hemingway’s can match.
* Paris says Gadhafi's emissaries are suggesting the dictator is ready to leave. * Gordon Brown hacked by journalists for more than 10 years, with privacy invasions from conmen and "blaggers." * Brown: If European growth continues to run so far behind, by midcentury it may be as small
When it comes to in-vitro fertilization, nothing is normal. Your world is upside-down. Your doctor compliments your wife on her monkeys. Then, when every dollar and exertion has gone toward a single hour of hope, it begins to snow.
* Belarus arrests deaf-mute for shouting anti-gov't slogans and a one-armed man for clapping along. * Bands touring this summer want fans to calm down. * Naomi Wolf accidentally kills the messenger—dopamine—in dissection of porn's effect on brains. * Foreign Policy predicts who will be
America adores its clichés about French culture—skinny women, hot sex, and “surrender monkeys.” But the Mali intervention shows France in a different light. From 2011, an appreciation for France’s history of conquering and oppressing the world.
Even then, better to ignore the reasons than enter months of mockups, head-to-wall banging, interminable revisions, and the inevitable trip to the Genius Bar, bruised laptop in hand. Instead, we peered into the safety of our phones and—why not—loaded up our site. We zoomed in to
