Culture & Religion

It is has never been more hip to be frugal. Riding a bike to work is praiseworthy, while closeting the Fendi in favor of a canvas bag is downright noble. […]

Even before a U.S. communications satellite and a long-defunct Russian orbiter ran into each other last week and created millions of smaller pieces of debris, the space around Earth was […]

Under the new two-way power-sharing agreement, Zimbabweans are enthused with a new hope that civil society may take hold in a country Foreign Policy ranked in the top three of […]

A 29 year-old porn star named Stormy Daniels is thinking about running for U.S. senate in Louisiana, in a campagin to unseat Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter, who you may […]

Treasury Secretary Mr. Tim Geithner, I Support You

Though we’re more accustomed to see him in B-list romantic comedies and hosting Saturday Night Live, Ben Affleck reported some encouraging news out of central Africa recently where he has […]

Gene sequencing pioneer Jay Flatley of the personal genomics outfit Illumina, predicted that by 2019 it will be a routine measure to map infants’ genomes. With the cost of gene […]

Wake up Americans! We Are in Three WARS!

Claiming a truly green stimulus package would save the US economy $450 million for every $1 billion spent, the World Resources Institute and the Peterson Institute for International Economics released […]

The Irish government today confirmed that it will be cutting special teacher support for children with mild learning disabilities in 119 schools nationwide. This announcement comes on the same day […]

Everyone knows that they’re supposed to be adapting to a newly lean recession budget, but once you’ve nixed pedicures, Starbucks and the occasional taxi, you may start to feel a […]

Even though she may have taken some flack from Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Alexander‘s presence at the Obama inauguration seems to officially signal the return of eloquence and rhetoric to the […]

For the United States to reach any major goals for renewable energy, it’s going to need major infrastructure development—not only does it have to build the wind farms where it’s […]

Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values. It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.

When the death toll reached 1,000 in the latest Israel-Palestine exchange, it made frontpage international headlines. Now that 900 people have been killed in the Congoas a result of a botched […]

For decades, the average Indian citizen could vote for the governmental representatives of his choosing and then follow their foibles in the news—and that’s where his access to government ended. […]

Blogs have erupted over the disappearance of documentary film maker/blogger/freelance journalist Philip Rizk. The grad student at AUC (American University in Cairo) was among a group of peaceful protesters detained […]

Speaking today at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice President Joe Biden told the world that the U.S. would no longer be a swaggering soloist throwing its muscle around […]

Demonstrated by his activity on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the official White House portal, President Obama is institutionalizing social networking as the interactive feature par excellence in American governance. The […]

In an editorial that strongly echoes the inaugural address and his reminder to Congress last week that “we don’t have a moment to spare,” Barack Obama told Washington Post readers […]

The Cato Institute today explores the problem of “invisible” trade barriers. “Although they are part of a large and growing segment of world trade — and a prominent feature in […]

It’s been a busy birthday week between Robert Burns (250 years young), Wilmer Valderrama (29), and the Iranian Revolution (30).But lest you forgot to mark your calendar amid all the […]

So what was Will Swope going off about on YouTube’s Davos Question? Intellectual property rights to save the planet from a climate catastrophe? A quick reading of some of the […]

The departure last week of conservative journalist Bill Kristol from the New York Times has New York magazine asking who will be next?  “It’s not that “Times readers don’t like […]

Though the U.S. stock market may still be the best insulated from worldwide shocks like the financial crisis, foreign markets are looking hot in 2009, the Wall Street Journal reminds […]

It may be time to start rethinking the term “small business.” A recent announcement from MIT suggests that nanotechnology—in all its permutations—may be the wave of the future with regards […]

The filter blog 3 Quarks Daily — science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else we deem inherently fascinating — that seems to be especially adored by celebrity atheists, […]

Higly skilled chef`s and restauranteurs flock to a small city.

When has mankind ever been free? Why haven’t other societies created so many of the benefits this young county has brought to mankind? They have opted for control of people […]

Though she started off in linguistics, Anna Deavere Smith soon hit on theater as a way to study diversity and social change.