Regarding torture: Just because you scored after harpooning the goalie, doesn't suddenly make harpooning OK. We have become so casual about torture that we now openly debate its efficacy. Mexico abandons its "centuries-old Napoleonic system of closed-door, written inquisitions." Study finds a wealthy child
Op: Hope glimmers that the financial crisis has peaked, though recovery will require a lower speed limit, diminished expectations. From February: "Stimulus bill headed for passage minus pandemic funds." In Mexico City, Obama was received by Felipe Solis, an archaeologist who died a day later--Obama's
Though the people Barkley Hendricks paints are attractive, laid back, and worldly, don’t be fooled: These images have none of the indifference coolness implies.
Massive Arlen Specter article on his tenure as a lamp-lighter; calls for reps "to reassert themselves in our system of checks and balances." Op: Regarding torture, we can't skirt the criminal implications of what we know. Iceland's men destroyed the country's
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we demonstrate to a wary customer how best to maneuver the purchase of a new car, while keeping accidental singes to a minimum.
Next month the U.S. will release photos of alleged abuses at Iraq and Afghanistan prisons--officials say none are as graphic as the Abu Ghraib images. In Moldova, the victorious Communists represent the conservative center-right--where does Russia fit in the political spectrum? A Senate Armed Services report
Borrowing a Bushism, Clinton calls Pakistan an "existential threat"; Kerry says U.S. lacks "a real strategy." Gates says disclosure of interrogation memos was inevitable. Op: I interrogated Abu Zubaydah, I didn't torture, and I got good intel. Pros and cons considered while Obama
What has happened so far is no more than the overture to the first act of this opera. Obama's 100-day mark approaches. In the past month, three woman have claimed Paraguayan President Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop, is the father of their child. TMN is still
Investigations show none of the officials who approved the use of torture bothered to learn about their nation's long-standing opposition to it. If the U.S. doesn't prosecute C.I.A. and Bush administration officials for torture crimes at home, Europe will, says the U.
Geithner tells Congress bank report cards need to be kept secret for public's own good. They see it as a story where one man can have a vision and successfully complete it. Indian business students find Mein Kampf inspirational. South Africans will vote for the ANC, but they&
