Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Those who reject the ideas of political Islam are in touch with Muslims on a local level. Obama's strategy has been in place for less than six months. Why reaching conclusions in Afghanistan is premature. Times reporter fights bloggers over claims his Afghan minerals story
Where people build homes, birds sometimes build nests—and there’s no guarantee cohabitation of the species will be idyllic.
They are more than twice as likely to report having struggled with substance abuse. Study explores sperm donor children's suffering. Apple juice can reduce anxiety, delusion in Alzheimer's patients. Freakonomist discusses health reform, Wall Street, and how to motivate students to do well. A common sunscreen
Dear Mr. Erard, I remember my first, too. It was my first quarter as a history graduate student, and I was grading for a class on the Dark Ages. It was a paper on the Black Death; the student in question began his introduction with an especially lucid and off-
The morning of June 15, 1904, promised a day of fun for more than a thousand residents of the Lower East Side. In an instant, it turned deadly.
Waxman v. Big Oil will see the entire industry go on trial today. Obama to give his first Oval Office address tonight, likely to provide "realism and hope" about BP. Also: Tonight's speech will show how committed Obama plans to be about energy legislation. Op: Obama
Over the past decade, we've learned diseases' genetics and pharmaceutical companies are more complex than previously thought. As it does with every 9/11 comparison, the Daily News called up some 9/11 family members to see who was upset about the remark. Philip Graham remembers eating
In partnership with local education officials, Transparency International Pakistan asked children across the nation to depict corruption in a drawing competition to show a “Child’s View of Corruption.”
Afghanistan's billion-dollar minerals--a curiously timed piece of good news? Karzai's ousted intelligence chief says the Afghan leader's given up on N.A.T.O. and is swinging for the Taliban and Pakistan. Turkey shows more assertive--if resentful--foreign policy, yet E.
Steve Almond is the author of the sentence, “I was a twelve-year-old whose hobbies were shoplifting and pyromania.” He writes beautiful fiction, and if you don’t know it you might dig it. Last month he published a nonfiction book about music, though he freely admits to thinking
