Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus
[Not single-page] Psychoanalyzing one of America’s most dysfunctional relationships.
The Plastic Panic
How worried should we be about everyday chemicals?
Lonely, stressed and frustrated: inside the mind of the Pinellas monkey
The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson
In Sweden the books and their author — who died in an untimely fashion that some conspiracy theorists persist in calling an assassination — have lately become the center of another sort of story, the kind of thing August Strindberg might have written, full of intense, opinionated Swedish characters entwined in a saga involving envy, resentment, a contested legacy and a mysterious manuscript. At least one skeptic has even questioned how Larsson, a middle-aged man with no history of writing crime fiction, and seemingly no flair for it, could have written the Millennium books in the first place.
Patient Observation
I had a perfectly normal childhood in Wichita Falls, a place Advertising Age once called the most average city in America. But I didn’t truly understand where I was from until I stepped inside the gates of the local state hospital and realized that every town has another side.
The status quo of electric cars: better batteries, same range
Paul Morley On Ian Curtis – ‘The Myth Gets Stronger’
Ian Curtis died thirty years ago this month. This is the full obituary that appeared in NME in June 1980
The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand
Race to the Top has turned a relatively modest federal program (the $4.3 billion budget represents less than 1 percent of all federal, state and local education spending) into high-yield leverage that could end up overshadowing health care reform in its impact and that is already upending traditional Democratic Party politics.
Look at Me!
A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding
Soccer Savior
Africa’s greatest star, Didier Drogba, didn’t single-handedly end his country’s civil war, but such is the respect he commands that when he called for Ivorians to look beyond what divided them, the people listened
You must be logged in to post a comment.