In an effort "to make Norm Coleman go away," Democrat groups ask supporters to donate $1 a day every day Coleman refuses to concede. "The wall is the perfect crime because it creates the violence it was ostensibly built to prevent." The history of Israel'
Price declines in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Luxembourg stoke fears about deflation. Notes on how Africa may come out of the financial crisis with stronger financial systems. Are the values espoused by the Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded? Cowboy culture meets contraception in
"It is easy for a young person to become a pirate." In Somalia, pirates are akin to ganglords who can overpower locals with money, force. J.G. Ballard, author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, dies at age 78. Today's long read: After seven years
Carson Ellis mostly divides her time between book illustration and art for the Decemberists. Here she illustrates an imaginary trip Russia, after a trip to the real one.
Human Rights Watch director says Obama gains diplomacy power by releasing the torture memos. With jobs drying up in Japan, government offers money to immigrants to go home (providing they don't come back). As Western shoppers desire less cashmere, Mongolian shepherds face herder loan defaults. Map of the
Don’t saddle T. Jefferson Parker with the stigma of genre writing.
Peter Singer, Princeton mentor and philosopher, presents a convincing argument for how all of us can make a difference in the lives of others without reducing the quality of our own.
This month's Of Recent Note topic is: Your Favorite Print Periodicals The ones you love--whether thriving, surviving, or recently defunct. Tell us about your morning coffee with the New York Sun, your favorite section of the Seattle P-I, the vice-like grip you have on the
"Those methods, read on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, appear graphic and disturbing." Justice Dept. releases C.I.A. interrogation memos. Bipartisanship may be sparked from a simple agreement: Senators needs to eat together more often. The importance of refrigeration to the psyche, economy, and
France's Caterpillar workers strike against an economic system "that makes men, women, and entire families suffer." Bulletpoints on the state of South Africa compared to hackneyed headlines. Summary of recent deft steps taken by Pakistani and American officials to defuse a crisis. If Fred Astaire would
