Elizabeth Chang writes that Barack Obama shouldn’t have checked “African American” on his census form because he is biracial.
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Experts believe that New York City is home to as many as 800 languages, many of which are heard more commonly in the five boroughs than anywhere else.
New research indicates that superstition may be able to influence the outcome of event. Study subjects who were told they were playing with a “lucky” golf ball, on average, sank more putts.
Naomi Klein’s 2000 book “No Logo” inadvertently served as the most influential marketing manual of the decade, writes Andrew Potter.
The Los Angeles Times began placing ads within its editorial stories this week; they couldn’t have come up with a more misguided or damaging effort to bring in revenue if […]
Magazine covers are “a wasteland of creativity” these days. Or so says legendary advertising and design guru George Lois. “Go to a newsstand today, there’s not a memorable—forget about something […]
If David Cameron wants to beat Gordon Brown next month, he might want to play a lot of tennis. According to this paper, anyway, gestures and small movements are enough […]
The fight over Cape Wind – a $1 billion, 24-square-mile offshore wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound – has dragged on so long (9 years) that books have been written […]
Don’t look now, but “femivores” are back in the news. Femivores, if you recall, are women who embrace ultra-local food production as feminist statement. Usually this involves some kind of […]
“My work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit,” says DJ Spooky. “We’re bombarded with sound at every level.” In his Big […]
The members of the Senate Permnanent Subommittee on Investigations were angry. Their anger was predictably performative, and often nasty. McCaskill’s analogy of Goldman Sachs to a bookie managing bets on […]
Robert Whitaker’s “Anatomy of an Epidemic” investigates the long-term outcomes of patients treated with psychiatric drugs. Could meds be doing more harm than good?
Benjamin Kunkel thinks that, absent a political movement for full employment, the U.S. will continue to have fewer jobs—and those with jobs will be increasingly exploited.
Despite the claims of advertisers, most orange juice is neither fresh nor natural. Alissa Hamilton writes that the history of processed orange juice is a study in deceptive marketing.
Former President Jimmy Carter writes that Sudan’s recent elections, despite the condemnation of many critics, “will permit this war-torn nation to move toward a permanent peace.”
“For decades, TV has depicted teens as angst-ridden and rebellious, and parents as out-of-touch and unhip.” But a new generation of shows feature less-defiant teens, and cool parents.
Jim Titus, the EPA’s resident expert on sea-level rise, calculates that a three-foot rise in sea level will push back East Coast shorelines an average of 300 to 600 feet in the next 90 years.
New research indicates that New World ants, who fastidiously cultivate crops in their underground lairs for food, have updated the crops they grow over time.
“Modern eco-foodies are full of good intentions,” writes Robert Paarlberg. But “the hope that we can help others by changing our shopping and eating habits is being wildly oversold to Western consumers.”
Norman Steel and Benjamin Miller think New York’s garbage should be processed in waste-to-energy plants which produce energy, and are less polluting than landfills.
With yet another journalist attacked and killed in Honduras this past week, the country has become one of the most dangerous for reporters in 2010. As previously mentioned on this […]
With exactly 40 Earth Days in its wake, the US has come a long way on conservation awareness. But when we think about Earth and all that ails her, we’re […]
This FIFA World Cup ad looks like a psychedelic collaboration between Adbusters and James Nachtwey. Way to bum out the entire species, FIFA. Photo credit: flickr user Dr. Motte, licensed […]
“For centuries in the past we’ve been in the center of the world.In fact, you know, ‘China’ in Chinese means ‘the middle kingdom,’ that we are in the middle of […]
Here then is the hidden truth that none of the established political parties will tell the electorate in this, the penultimate week in what is fast proving to be one […]
When literary critics like Lionel Trilling wrote in the 1950s and ’60s, they wrote for “a readership of people who believed that your taste in literature or your taste in […]
I used to have a joke I told all the time, back when the mortgage business was booming, about the “loan officer’s tool kit.” If I saw someone standing in […]
“Maybe it’s time to admit that we may never find a way to reconcile consumers who want free entertainment with creators who want to get paid,” writes Megan McArdle.
Neil Simon “does not think against society; he thinks with it, observing and recording the sorrows and deliriums of the middle class, like a sort of swami of tsuris,” writes John Lahr.
Stanley Fish is not surprised that the Supreme Court struck down a statute criminalizing the production and sale of “crush videos” depicting animal cruelty for sexual fetishists.