Democrats busy writing national health proposals with many variations--including a public option. New Japanese verb: "obamu" (to Obama). After nearly five centuries, the Catholic Church welcomes Anglicans back into the fold. #drac: Kevin Fanning notes the most annoying accents in Dracula, in order of annoyingness. "Maybe
Four decades later, awareness of Latin American literature reaches a new peak.
Edward Burtynsky brings us the oil industry’s fields, factories, and graveyards in large-format wall-sized photographs from around the world—Azerbaijan, China, Canada, California, and more.
How, in the summer of 1936, a photo depicting drought conditions threatened to derail F.D.R.'s reelection. How Where the Wild Things Are turned my two-year-old into a quantum physicist. TMN's Clay Risen's M.L.K. book featured in Nashville Scene&
Obama unveils softer approach--both sticks and carrots--for Sudan. Tóibín: One benefit of a referendum--e.g., Ireland's vote on the Lisbon Treaty--is seeing who holds the power. What life's like in Kandahar for Westerners without blast walls: isolated, boring, depressing. Moving story of
A biography shines new light on the Bolshevik revolutionary’s life after exile.
Writer aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
Tsvangirai's MDC will no longer work with Mugabe's Zanu PF. Britain's $100 million gift to Zimbabwe won't go directly to the government. Italy denies accusations of bribing the Taliban; France outraged, fearing its soldiers died as a result. Europe's inheritance
Britain's far-right National Party agrees to admit nonwhite people as members. Moscow to blow snow clouds away from the city center, banishing powder to the surrounding region. Mao's grandson's blog reveals an unwavering Mao obsession. Willie Nelson's corn-powered tour bus
Thirty-four killed in the fifth big attack by militants in Pakistan in the last 10 days. Amid Obama signs everywhere, America's power far more respected than France's in Guinea. George Packer receives a letter from a Vietnam expert in Kabul. Japan's new Asianism
