Jordan Finds Itself Stuck in the Middle Again
Last week, the United Nations Security Council put the tiny kingdom of Jordan center stage in its efforts to bring peace to the Middle East.It elected Jordan as one of its nonpermanent members,...
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Vivian Maier Created Art In Secret For More Than 50 Years
This is what we know about Vivian Maier: She was born in New York City, of French descent, in 1926, and died in 2009. She lived mostly in Chicago but traveled the world alone for eight months in 1959....
View ArticleChile Under Bachelet To Warm To Brazil
(Reuters) - Chile under its next president, center-left Michelle Bachelet, is likely to cool toward Latin America's more conservative governments in favor of warmer relations with Brazil and other...
View ArticleWhat Scares You Might Scare Your Kids
Fear can make you cry, make you shake, make you run. It can make you do craven, cowardly things or stupidly brave things. It can shake you to your core and even alter your biology. Something really...
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South Africans Send Off Mandela With a Hallelujah Chorus of Approval
Qunu, South Africa—From mournful hyms to jubilant protest songs, South Africans' 10-day farewell to Nelson Mandela, which concluded Sunday with his burial in the ululating hills of his childhood home,...
View ArticleSyria Uses Red Tape, Threats to Control U.N. Aid Agencies
(Reuters) - It is a 15-minute drive from the five-star hotel that houses U.N. aid staff in Damascus to rebel-held suburbs where freezing children are starving to death.Yet it is months since convoys...
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Dreaming In Color On India’s Streets
The bookshops on College Street in Calcutta are among the last remnants of the quaint old-world charm that the city was once known for. They each specialize in a genre like literature, engineering, or...
View ArticleA New Generation of Spy Catchers Shakes Up the FBI
Not that long ago, top FBI counterterrorism officials didn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites. And, judging from their public statements, didn’t really care.“You don't need subject-matter...
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Today in Tabs: Big Doge
Tragically, Peter O'Toole and the last shreds of 60 Minutes' credibility both died this weekend. The Verge and The Wire have more on that latter loss. They will both be remembered fondly and missed by...
View ArticleThe Day Peter O’Toole Wasn’t Drunk
Peter O’Toole, an Irish bookmaker’s son with a hell-raising streak whose performance in the 1962 epic film “Lawrence of Arabia” earned him overnight fame and established him as one of his generation’s...
View ArticleYou Never Give Me Your Money: How Alan Klein played The Beatles and The Stones
The following is a excerpt from Beatles vs. Stones by John McMillian. It contains graphic, possibly offensive language.In 1965, the pop music industry was abuzz about an audacious American accountant...
View ArticleSyria Region Where Polio Found Excluded From 2012 Vaccination Drive
(Reuters) - The Syrian government excluded the largely rebel-held province of Deir al-Zor - where polio broke out this year - from a 2012 vaccination campaign, arguing that most residents had fled...
View ArticleU.S. Holocaust Museum Gets Long Lost Diary From Top Hitler Aide
(Reuters) - The long-lost diary kept by a top aide to Adolf Hitler as he oversaw the genocide against Jews and others during World War Two, a key piece of evidence during the Nuremberg trials, was...
View ArticleSnowden Makes Case for Brazil Asylum
(Reuters) - Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has offered to collaborate with a Brazilian investigation into the NSA surveillance program he revealed earlier this year,...
View ArticleRussia, Ukraine Reach Deal on $15 Billion Bailout
(Reuters) - Russia threw Ukraine an economic lifeline on Tuesday, agreeing to buy $15 billion of Ukrainian debt and to reduce the price its cash-strapped neighbor pays for vital Russian gas supplies by...
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The Sinkhole That's Eating Louisiana
“They goin’ down,” John Boudreaux recalls telling a colleague as he recorded the watery cataclysm unfolding before him with an iPhone camera. “They” were a grove of cypress trees; “down” was into a...
View ArticleThe Case That Could Topple Obamacare
Obamacare may have its problems, including more bugs than you can find in the cornfields of Nebraska, but its legal worries were meant to end after the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate, the...
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Today in Tabs: Thought-Leading With the Chin
Aspen Ideas speaker and World Economic Forum member David Brooks published a column titled "The Thought Leader" yesterday that he originally wrote in 1995 and called "How to Become Henry Kissinger."...
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The Deathly Flaw Buried in the Budget Deal
The dead don’t talk, but they have been known to file taxes.Scamsters who gain access to the social security numbers of deceased Americans have fooled the Internal Revenue Service again and again. When...
View ArticleEgypt Sends Mursi, Others, To Trial For International Conspiracy
(Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered former President Mohamed Mursi and 35 other Islamists to stand trial on charges including conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt...
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