Can the Chinese government build an international media behemoth — and does anyone care?
Editor’s Pick
Do CEOs Matter?
Steve Jobs, Apple’s ailing CEO, is scheduled to return to work this month after a six-month leave, but investors are feeling skittish.
The Eminem interview
The greatest rapper on earth gets personal on Proof, guns, Bill O’Reilly and being an artist from Detroit
Ask the pilot
Do you really think I’d lie to you about cabin air? Plus: The Colgan crash and the problems with regional airlines.
As Cheney Seizes Spotlight, Many Republicans Wince
His running argument with the Obama administration has spawned a noisy side debate all its own: By leading the criticism, is Cheney doing more harm than good to the causes he has taken up and to the political well-being of his party?
Sex Work
Two new biographies — one of Helen Gurley Brown and the other of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson — offer cautionary tales about mixing sex and the workplace.
Hemingway’s Libidinous Feast
In a restored edition of a great classic, sexual anxiety looms large.
