Supreme Court will throw out lawsuit by six states to limit carbon pollution by coal plants in other states. Twenty-eight countries pledge almost $2 billion to build new concrete shell enclosing Chernobyl reactor. Founder of what was once one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders found guilty
Our man in Boston talks with memoirist and historian Carlos Eire to discuss Cuba and Operation Peter Pan, when 15,000 children were airlifted away from their parents.
Banks ordered to freeze international assets face Arabic spelling challenges. Turned down for 826, Austin lures teachers from its local music and film scene to start a creative tutoring center. A new business finds there's money to be made introducing unconnected parents to private school administrators. Cuba'
Summary of Nigerian politics: a federal system of fiefdoms ruled by godfatherism. Protests in Nigeria, Uganda, and Burkina Faso don't symbolize a broader African movement. Cousins of Roomba deployed to Fukushima reactor building. See also: Video shot by an unmanned helicopter of the destruction of Fukushima's
There’s something irresistible about photographer Jean Pagliuso’s birds. From chickens to falcons, their pride, confusion, sweetness, and complacence jumps out in these “honest and forthright” portraits.
Riots break out in Nigeria after results, some troubling, show Goodluck Jonathan to win. Long read: Hitchens on sex, the divided self, and how his cancer's making him a human experiment. Rider to last week's budget deal: gray wolf removed from Idaho and Montana's
Libyan-American telecom executive establishes cell-phone service for rebels, who were using signal flags. Long read: Saudi Arabia and Iran enter a new cold war. Sarkozy's line for Africa--"neither interference nor indifference" smacks some of Françafrique. Photos: Pictures of Dadaab, world's largest
Accountants aren’t the only ones inspired by “Joint Strike Fighter Property Costs.” Five openings for novels inspired by California’s rather unique state tax adjustments.
Photos from Japan, one month later. California immigration scam targeting Chinese nationals recruited victims into a fake U.S. special forces unit. The Finnish government's "baby box" is like a baby shower without any bad gifts. In 1993, John Fogerty was slapped with a lawsuit for
Having fulfilled his duty once again and with the most imminent dangers receding into the distance, it’s time to depart. The Golem posts his final entry.
