New Maira Kalman blog post visits a military base for Memorial Day. Kalman among this year's recipients of TMN Editors' Awards for Online Excellence. Retired general says we haven't seen additional Abu Ghraib photos because they're too indecent. Your Saturday morning read: Errol
If you’ve only seen “The Wire,” good on you. But you’re only getting part of the story.
Fresh bomb blasts in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kill at least 10, injure 70. Breakdown of the dissolution of G.M., soon to be called Government Motors. Blog details advice for soldiers deploying to Afghanistan. Newt Gingrich does what he does best, just now in 140 characters or less.
Oprah fave Jane Hamilton’s new potboiler is a wicked, fun ride.
Language in Mumbai can be tricky for newcomers, especially foreigners trying to hail taxis.
U.N. Human Rights Council decides allegedly horrific Sri Lankan camps warrant no investigation. Never read about Hitler on the bus. Conclusions after a year of reading books about Nazis. German scholars struggle with the implications of Google Books, issue complaints into the ether. Germany's Donald Duck is
This month’s Of Recent Note topic is: Recession Confessions Are you stealing paper as well as pens from the office? Furnishing your apartment with castoffs? Attending parties you wouldn’t normally attend just for the free food? Have you become a coupon clipper? Maybe you’re not proud of
With the tally holding firm at five states, California's ruling puts the heart of same-sex marriage squarely in New England. North Korea's recent provocation raises the question of whether we're still at war. Sixty-five years to the day of the first Normandy
Four hundred years ago, Henry Hudson took a pleasure cruise up to Albany—and so began a bloody, murderous chapter of American history.
Unconvincing argument says the Taliban's bombing in Lahore is a sign of desperation. In case you missed it: the New York Review primer on Pakistan. Policeman who shot demonstrator in 1967--igniting protests and reshaping politics of West Germany--was an East German spy. Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured
