Now Korea Is Cleaning Our Clock

“The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services ...

Paul Krugman and Toomas Henrik Ilves

Estonia to Krugman: Y”€™all Needs to Chill

The ex-Soviet satellite state of Estonia is home to slightly over a million people and is smaller than Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Yet in the contentious debate between ...

Embracing Unemployment

We had better start learning to embrace unemployment. There aren’t that many jobs anymore, and those that exist pay wages that barely make it worth getting out of bed: The ...

Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside

Tuesday was World Environment Day. I loathe the environment. The United Nations has been stoking the flames of Earth worship since the early 1970s, when global cooling was all ...

S.E. Cupp

Two Sides, One Cupp

For one brief, pixelated moment last week, Red and Blue America came together (as it were). This rare harmonic convergence was prompted by…what? A natural disaster that ...

A Millionaire in the Danger Zone

Sunil* was a well-fed Indian shipping millionaire. I"€™d heard about him through people who worked for him. I was helping the British Army build a prison in Iraq and would ...

Castellón de la Plana airport

Monuments to Spanish Insolvency

Spaniards alternate between rage and bewilderment as Europe lurches closer toward the currency implosion that will most likely vaporize Spain's banking sector. Wasn"€™t it ...

The Federal Bureau of Entrapment

Last week three activists associated with the Occupy movement were arrested and accused of plotting an attack to protest the NATO summit. The group allegedly stockpiled Molotov ...

Corporate Media’s Boob Job

My first reaction to that over-discussed TIME magazine cover showing a woman breastfeeding her way-too-old son was: "€œWait"€”TIME magazine is still ...

As the Boomers Head for the Barn

When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 ...

The Suicide by Edouard Manet

Italy’s Suicide Epidemic: Perfectly Understandable

Europe's crisis is existential and economic. Here in Italy the talk is of suicide. Hardly a day passes without an Italian in financial trouble killing himself. (They are all ...

Space: The Final Market

If all goes as planned, May 19 will see the SpaceX ship blast off to resupply the International Space Station, marking NASA's official opening of space to private enterprise. In ...

The Avengers: Kicking Ass and Selling Tickets

It was a bad weekend for Nicolas "€œThe American in Paris"€ Sarkozy but a great weekend at the global box office for what the French sniffily call l"€™empire américain's ...

Brecksville Bridge

The Five Stooges of Cleveland

The International Workers’ Disco Party known as May Day came early to Cleveland this year, but instead of starting with a bang, it began with a profoundly dumb silence on the ...

Syntagma Square, Athens

Is Europe Sailing on the Titanic?

U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old ...

Dan Savage

Tiptoeing Through a Minefield of Pansy Asses

Although it remains unclear exactly what buggery has to do with ethical reporting, Professional Homosexual Dan Savage was there to unravel the mystery to a group of Seattle teens ...


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