In a speech in early December, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) repeated the charge that the Republicans have become “the party of No.” Rather than working to improve the […]
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I keep getting whiffs of Apple’s tablet computer. See what’s cooking after the jump. Wired has the most recent report. It sounds like Apple is leaking it some info. There […]
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying blow up Northwest Flight 253 to Detroit, is in many ways the very model of a modern terrorist. Like many al-Qaeda […]
It’s hard to avoid the barrage of end-of-decade retrospectives this last week of 2009, a decade marked by an interesting combination of the sublime and the ridiculous. But in a […]
The U.S. has an increasing military presence in Yemen which is seen as the next potential training ground for Al Qaeda operatives.
That the Nigerian terrorist was not investigated is due to a massive database of 500,000 possible terrorists, officials say.
Political opponents have been arrested, as many as eight killed and over 300 arrested as protests in Iran take a violent turn.
As climate change legislation gets more attention more businesses are lobbying Congress to get their piece of the pie.
China is scheduled to execute a Briton convicted of smuggling heroin despite claims that he is severely mentally ill.
New research suggests that disinfectants can train bacteria to resist antibiotics they have never been exposed to before.
Britain will send $80 million to support the Palestinian Authority, help Gazans through the winter and pay teachers in U.N. schools.
Obama has largely ignored Latin America but economic engagement is still necessary for everybody, writes The New Republic.
Sexually deceptive orchids that give off the odor of female insects trick lustful males into carrying off pollen.
Structural barriers to women’s rights in Iraq are loosening as women increasingly populate the national police force.
Benjamin Sparrow, in his book Uncertain Guardians, cites an industry research report when he states “the people who create the public images of elected officials, those to be elected, and […]
Of all the writers to emerge from the psychedelic ’60s, few have endured as long at the top of their craft as Robert Stone. In a candid interview with Big […]
Since my first vivid political memories were of Bill Clinton, who campaigned on V-chips and school uniforms to win reelection to the presidency, I rely on others’ accounts of how […]
The intellectual trap of exploring a new place — whether through actual travel or by reading a book set there — is the practically unconscious assumption that we can generalize. […]
Families who have lost income during the recession are planning their finances better and even saving money.
An archeological dig in Nazareth has uncovered the home of “a simple Jewish family” in a neighborhood Jesus may have known.
Researchers who followed Blondie suggest that rock and roll drummers get an aerobic and anaerobic workout just like elite athletes.
Property speculators in China are driving up the price of real estate at a record pace prompting calls for restraint.
There is speculation that Apple will announce its much rumored tablet computer in San Francisco late this January.
The Christmas Day bomber once lived in a $3.2 million apartment while attending a top London university.
States with currently expanded Medicaid coverage stand to pay out much more than others under the Senate’s healthcare bill.
The expected repatriation of Yemeni prisoners from Gitmo has been complicated by the Christmas Day bomber who was trained in Yemen.
Iranian reformists have gathered in Tehran during the Shia celebration of Ashoura to protest the government.
New findings show that maternal behavior encourages the formation of new neural connections in the brain.
You’ve gathered up all your quaint eco-wrapping (newspapers and last year’s ribbons), and you’ve put it out with the recycling. You’re getting down to the dregs of the organic eggnog […]
With a college student in art school who was leaning towards photography as a major just a few weeks ago, Learning To See Creatively by Brian Peterson seemed to be […]