Berlusconi and berlusconismo take drubbing in local elections in Italy, where tide of aversion rises. Prison allows Chinese inmates to reduce sentences by doing Communist cultural activities. No djoke: Djokovic's domination of tennis attributed to gluten-free diet. Sam Anderson: Eat, Pray, Love is avant-garde, "a
Imagine an America in which all-female families survived the Great Depression raising children and farming homesteads in the absence of men (and in the absence of today's detractors to gay marriage.
Diplomats spar over newly available petroleum rights, shipping lanes in a rapidly melting Arctic. What the IMF sexual assault accusation means for France's presidential elections. "It's Lincoln meets Reagan with a smidge of Harding." For whatever reason, we can't stop comparing Obama
Smoke the Iraqi donkey wins green card lottery. Azerbaijan, nominally in Europe, wins Eurovision. Balance of power in Libya shifting toward rebels, but war looks to go long--meanwhile, 60-day deadline looms for White House. George Mitchell resigns as chief Middle East envoy; surprise is why he didn'
Pakistani Taliban kills 80, most of them newly trained cadets leaving paramilitary academy. File under "inevitable"--the Taliban gets on Twitter. Good op-ed about America pressing Pakistan by Zakaria ends with remarkably vapid last line. McCain: Torture did not give us bin Laden; in fact, waterboarding Khalid
A decade after Osama bin Laden’s face achieved iconic status, one writer still can’t help thinking, it’s a handsome one—this definitive “face of evil.”
Galleon Group founder, mega-bajillionaire Raj Rajaratnam convicted of insider trading. Pentagon considering family visits for Guantanamo detainees. Conservative estimate says 48 women and girls are raped every hour in DR Congo, "one of the great human crises of our time." Former Peace Corps volunteers speak out against
Bin Laden data reveal a terror kingpin active in new plots, including 9/11-scale attacks in smaller cities across the U.S. DA files suit to overturn Schwarzenegger commutation, since he didn't contact the victims first. As governor, Mitt Romney ushered in statewide health coverage; as GOP
As America dreams of black ops teams, where do mutants belong? And can comics end wars? From Captain America to big blond Thor, Osama bin Laden, and beyond.
Ten years ago, Bush and Musharraf made a deal: U.S. could raid, Pakistan would protest afterward. Hitchens on voice in writing and speech now that he has lost his own. What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? Technocrats who seemed golden in winter
