Italy's Cratering Economy, by the Numbers
Every August, Italian aristocrats flock to the cool hills of Fiesole overlooking Florence. This summer, as they look out at the timeless beauty of the Tuscan landscape, there is gloom in the air. The...
View ArticleMesh Networking Could Put an End to Broadband ISP Monopolies
The Internet may seem ethereal, but in reality it’s mostly buried in the ground or strung up from pole to pole, nearly synonymous with what you think of when you hear the word cable. Satellite Internet...
View ArticleCould the Internet Lead to More Breakaway Republics?
The independence movement in Scotland and elsewhere seems to be on to something about our hyper-networked age: Scale ain’t what it used to be. Technology can make a small country every bit as fruitful...
View ArticleSyria Says Would Work With Any State to Fight the Islamic State
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Monday it would cooperate in any international effort to fight Islamic State militants, after Washington signaled it was considering extending the battle against the...
View ArticleMichael Brown Remembered as a Spiritual Teen at Funeral
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Family and supporters on Monday celebrated the life of Michael Brown, a black teenager slain by police in Ferguson, Missouri, with a music-filled, foot-stomping funeral service...
View ArticleJames Foley’s Final Letter Home Tells of His Hopes of Freedom
The family of American journalist James Foley , murdered by an Islamic State jihadist, on Sunday published his final letter home on the Free James Foley Facebook page. Islamic State guards confiscated...
View ArticleMan-Made Earthquakes Are Proliferating, but We Won’t Admit Fault
If you jabbed at the center of a map of Oklahoma, your finger might land on Jones City, population 2,500. “Just a little piece of Americana,” as Lewis Moore, the state representative for the area,...
View ArticleFitness Trackers Show How Many People Woke Up During California Quake
Just how many people were awakened on Sunday morning by the 6.0 earthquake that struck northern California, the biggest to hit the Bay Area in 25 years? It would have been impossible to know in the...
View ArticleDid Bill de Blasio Keep His Promise to Reform Stop-and-Frisk?
A little over a year ago, a federal judge ruled the New York Police Department's use of Terry stops—commonly referred to as stop-and-frisk—was unconstitutional. The policy, Judge Shira Scheindlin...
View ArticleGaza War Rages On; Israel Moves to Protect Economy
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed at least nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and militants kept up cross-border rocket fire on Monday as Israel moved to cushion its economy...
View ArticleIslamic State Took Over a Prison and Shot the Shiite Prisoners, U.N. Says
GENEVA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq, including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war...
View ArticleAl Sharpton Calls for a 'Movement' as Ferguson Buries Slain Teenager Michael...
Michael Brown was laid to rest today, more than two weeks after he was shot dead by police on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri. The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for the 18-year-old Brown during a...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Netanyahu’s Losing—At Least in the Polls
Tel Aviv—It has been another day of something between war and peace in Tel Aviv. This war began seven weeks ago tonight. Yesterday came and went without any sirens on Tel Aviv. One missile was fired in...
View ArticleIn States With Medical Marijuana, Painkiller Deaths Drop by 25%
America has a major problem with prescription pain medications like Vicodin and OxyContin. Overdose deaths from these pharmaceutical opioids have approximately tripled since 1991, and every day 46...
View ArticleDirect Air Capture Makes Pollution a Cash Cow
Global industrialization has poured carbon in the sky, and now we must pay the price: the nasty specter of climate change, with its sinking islands and superstorms. But what if we could bring some of...
View ArticleWho Is Bombing Libya? U.S. Says It's Egypt, UAE
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were responsible for carrying out two series of air strikes in the past week on armed Islamist factions in Tripoli, Libya, U.S. officials said...
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Dancing Skeletons, Boys in High Heels and David Byrne: The Arcade Fire’s...
The Arcade Fire was a stadium-sized rock band before last week, but this weekend’s three-night residency at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center still felt like a sort of turning point. Sunday night, at that...
View ArticleUkraine Attacks Russian Armored Vehicles It Accuses of Invasion
The Ukrainian government has accused Russia of sending an armored column into its territory in an “incursion” on Monday, sparking renewed clashes between Ukrainian border guards and Russian...
View ArticleWatch John Oliver Totally Destroy—Oh, Never Mind, Forget It
Judging by the daily Dumpster of blog post headlines, Jon Stewart is a violent sociopath who must be stopped and Last Week Tonight host John Oliver can't stop skewering, eviscerating, torpedoing,...
View ArticleFrench PM to Unveil Pro-Reform Cabinet After Sacking of Rebel Ministers
France's prime minister will scramble to put together a new pro-reform government on Tuesday, a day after the surprise eviction of rebel ministers who had opposed budgetary rigor.Manuel Valls will seek...
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