China’s favorite Internet craze: ‘Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat.’
The post appeared on a computer gaming forum in July and became a viral joke, popping up on T-shirts and ads and celebrated in song and doctored photos. Its author and motive are unknown.
Hostages of the Hermit Kingdom
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists released last month after being imprisoned in North Korea, tell their story — and remind people of the story they wanted to cover.
Cattle rustling on the rise again in Texas
An Old West crime becomes new again, partly in response to the recession. One disgusted Texas Ranger says rustlers ‘disgrace the cowboy name.’
Salesian High’s volleyball team is playing above its head
For the East L.A. school’s volleyball squad, court smarts and persistence make up for inexperience and a lack of height. The lessons extend off the court.
Jani’s at the mercy of her mind
Michael and Susan Schofield’s 6-year-old daughter is locked in a nightmare realm of schizophrenia — and no one can help her.
In the Coachella Valley, hope withers on the vine
Picking grapes in the Coachella Valley is still dirty and dangerous. In the region where the United Farm Workers’ first table grape contract was signed, the pay is less than it was 40 years ago.
George Pelecanos on fathers and sons and ‘The Wire’
Arianna Huffington Is a Brilliant, Captivating, Wickedly Funny Enemy of the Establishment. She Also May Be a World-Class Opportunist.
She is dogged by questions: Was she a gold digger who, in the 1980s, chose the rich and famous of Manhattan as her lode? In the 1990s, was she a Pompadour who used her wiles to maneuver her then-husband into a political career that advanced her own ambitions? Is she now a political chameleon whose coloration fits an ideology of convenience?