The Economist’s Christmas Issue one-act, “Gordon Rex,” might be funny or—in that uniquely English, Economist-y way—slightly self-consciously aloof, but it makes us long for more. More Brown in verse. More […]
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Warfare’s effect and risk is unique to the person. Populations face war as individuals.
Two members of the Al Qaeda group claiming responsibility for the attempted Christmas Day bombing were released from Gitmo in 2007.
The White House decries newly proposed settlements in East Jerusalem which Israel says are not covered by its proposed construction moratorium.
China executed a British citizen early this morning for smuggling heroin despite claims the man was severely mentally ill.
Newt Gingrich says that during the 2010 midterm elections Republicans will run on repealing any healthcare legislation made into law.
Pirates have taken a U.K. flagged chemical tanker off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and can be expected to demand a ransom.
A U.S. judge has ruled that the BitTorrent search engine ISO Hunt is illegal because it celebrates copyright violation.
Grant money is sought to preserve an attendance log that Robert Frost kept while he was teaching at a grammar school in Methuen, MA.
Scientists believe that the “hunger gene” which tells the brain when the body needs food can act when we’re already full.
Researchers have created solar panels tiny as glitter specks which could be placed anywhere to power the future.
European companies have built China the world’s fastest train which took its maiden voyage last weekend.
Exciting news for Gen-Y back-to-the-landers this month. If you went upstate after college instead of to Wall Street, if you’re growing carrots and raising beef to sell at local farmers’ […]
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 […]
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 […]