Having blogged twice — here and here — about the September massacre by government forces in the west African nation of Guinea, I hope we’re all keeping an eye on […]
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Drug-war dispatches out of Mexico, Pakistan’s seeming inability to control its tribal areas, and Jon Lee Anderson’s recent reporting on the largely lawless swaths of Rio de Janeiro lodged a […]
Andy Dunn was sick of the way that his pants fit. So he and a friend from Stanford Business School started an online pants company called Bonobos. They make reasonably […]
Extracts from Sarah Palin’s ghost writer’s diary detailing her dealings with the former governor have been published in Salon.
Are the seven seconds it takes to complete the average Grand Prix pit stop the longest seconds in sport?
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has failed to appear in court in The Hague charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Drivers in Dallas have been being illegally ticketed by police officers for not speaking English.
The super rich could evolve into a different species from the poor, according to American futurologist Paul Saffo.
The mantis shrimp’s capability to see a wider color spectrum than a human’s could inspire a new generation of DVD player, scientists have found.
A leader of Bosnia’s dwindling Jewish community has published a book celebrating the many Serbs, Croats and Muslims who helped Bosnian Jews during the holocaust.
A school in China has outraged critics by teaching its pupils to salute every passing car on their way to school.
Now that the US has an African American president what does civil rights activist Booker T. Washington still offer?
Is signing a petition a public act or a secret ballot? And should signatories be subject to exposure?
Richard Dawkins is perhaps the world’s preeminent voice in one of our weightiest debates—‘how did we get here?’ So, how does the spearhead of modern atheism feel we are doing […]
The big news about yesterday’s extraordinary 350.org call for climate action, staged in more than 180 countries, was not that activists rallied in scuba gear underwater at Australia’s Great Barrier […]
Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski called this week for the agency to formally adopt a set of rules governing access to the Internet. The proposed rules are meant to […]
Are you a writer with a green cause? Then you probably shouldn’t bother applying for Columbia University’s 2-year Earth & Environmental Science Journalism Master’s Degree (EESJ) this winter. It doesn’t […]
I can’t blog forthrightly about the remote-control assassinations detailed this week in The New Yorker without first alerting readers to my bias — a bias that’s more about pragmatism and […]
After the Office of the President went eight years without tackling many of our contemporary crises, there’s a lot to be done. It makes you wish Hillary had won and […]
They may be known for the quality (and cost) of their education, but over the past three decades graduates from America’s Ivy League school’s have formed the foundation of contemporary […]
A new anti-obesity drug has proved successful in trials with fewer side effects than traditional treatments. But could cost limit its use?
Comedian David Cross shockingly admitted to snorting cocaine at a White House dinner while only 40 feet away from the president
A massive crevice that could be the entrance to a vast subsurface tunnel has been discovered on the Moon.
An ice-skating bear in a touring Russian circus killed a circus manager and a trainer, raising concerns about the ethics and safety of using animals commercially.
America’s private insurance trade group is appealing to Republicans to block Obama’s healthcare reform plans and reassure its interests.
An experiment in creativity saw a Twitter-based version of ‘exquisite corpse’ started by Neil Gaiman. But is this really how fiction should be made?
The US has formally called for Roman Polanski’s extradition following four weeks in Swiss custody on child sex charges.
Innovative European theatre group Punchdrunk has brought its terrifying blend of lies, strange scents, whispers and bloody murder to Massachusetts.
Should we pass laws requiring phone companies to pass on location co-ordinates of cell phones to emergency response teams?
America’s new defence spending bill raises concerns about US interference in Pakistan’s domestic affairs.