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
Reports show U.S. was prepared to battle Pakistani forces if they stood between them and bin Laden. A survey of the algorithms that rule the web, and how they affect everything from content farms to sports journalism. Charting the path of the Old Man in the Lake, the waterlogged
When we talk about "saving the planet" we really mean "save ourselves, please." Futurologists forecast what's next for the Earth's resident specks. Since their televised tussle 30 years ago, anthropologists Leakey and Johanson have apparently evolved. In the Galapagos, struggling to find
Syrian tycoon says Assads will fight to bitter end, but if Syria falls, so will Israel. Chart: Percentages of populations living on $10 or less per day. Urban renewal and economic development mean hard times for Turkey's remaining poor. Photos: Japan two months later. Somaliland leads world in
Nigel Peake’s new book is a lovely collection of drawings about farms, fields, and birds. It is pretty much irresistible, taken from childhood impressions and Peake’s current life in a one-road Irish village, where he is mistaken for the postman.
One-third of Africa's billion-strong population now middle class. Compelling profile of China-Siberia border, "one of the most important in the power struggles of the new century." Officials around Putin and Medvedev undergoing nervous breakdowns while trying to place loyalties. Germans make Donald Duck
Despite near-loss, unfortunately-named PAP Party holds power in Singapore for 46th straight year. Obama administration proposes $1 billion in debt relief for succesor to Mubarak government. Topics to anticipate this week. Experts believe Salafist groups, not Muslim Brotherhood, may be Egypt's real rising fundamentalist power. Almost
Merkel grilled for saying bin Laden's death "pleased" her; India jubilant bin Laden was found in Pakistan. Military long-read: Time to adjust our alliances to the post-protectorate era. Slideshow of memorable state-ordered assassinations in foreign lands. Republican senators thought photos of dead bin
There’s a peculiar odor to burning hope—it’s the smell of exhaust fumes, human sweat, and a fast-food container interred under a seat cushion.
Absent from the first-ever Fed chairman press event this week: discussion of bank regulation. Everyone wants to prove money won't make you happy, though research shows poverty sure can make you unhappy. Star Wars propaganda posters. In Tuscaloosa, there is a woman, a neighbor, who walks every
