Running from violence, 40,000 people have fled their homes in DR Congo since June. Afghans to form local forces--"not militias"--to fight Taliban insurgents in remote areas. Argentina becomes first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. Alabama's Tacky Jacks preps for its
No one knows what will happen to The Beaver, Jodie Foster's new film starring Mel Gibson, where Gibson plays a suicidal man whose life is changed by a hand puppet.
Analysis of chatter suggests Middle East indirect talks are not going well. Instapaper: What "sanctions against Iraq" really meant on the ground. Fighting Russia's heatwave with vodka and swimming, 233 people drowned in Moscow last week. Distrust numbers in the news; even rigorous-seeming statistics conceal
A trillion is a lot, especially when you consider the billions of dollars we're throwing at Afghanistan. The arresting quality of hearing angry women speak, and what Obama could learn. The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it&
When you’re looking to replace the radiator for a V-8 engine, it can help to have cousins you can count on. The tale of a risky family connection.
Violence and riots continue for a third night in Belfast after controversial parades. Soldiers in Fort Bliss, Texas, are statistically at greater risk at home than while deployed in Iraq. China's People's Daily says the Taliban is training "monkey terrorists" to kill Americans. No
It took BP a decade of hubris and near-misses to become the second largest in the industry--then came Deepwater Horizon. Op: When caught, drunk drivers can expect jail time--let's set that precedent for reckless CEOs. An inquiry into human fairness, and why its pursuit causes
The notion that insanity is the only rational response to a mad and maddening world—a notion romantically articulated by exotic psychiatric adventurer and trailblazer R.D. Laing in the euphoric phase of the Vietnam War era (“Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world”)—still holds some allure
Only 28,000 of 1.5 million displaced Haitians have moved into new homes. First-person account from one of Sunday's attacks in Uganda. Military rule 2.0: Now that the Cold War's over, militaries achieve coups behind the scenes. Over the last ten years, I&
The Haitian government hasn't received the money it was promised by the donors. Haiti, six months later. Studies find computers don't make good on their educational promise, even when placed in low-income households. An inquiry into our information glut and why facts are useless in
