Headlines from June 30, 2009
- Arabs generally may not revolt like Iranians, but they do contain and shrink their regimes.
- Only with your support can the revamped General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum become a reality.
- Cultural studies at U.S. universities cover race, gender, and sexuality--why not poverty?
- Critic very concerned you'll read Dickens before you balance your checkbook.
- Some authors strike back at critics on Twitter, and some tell Birnbaum about using guns.
- Instapaper for the commute: Big profile of Algonquin's Chuck Adams for those who enjoy the ins and outs of publishing.
- Infinite Summer is nine percent complete, but you can still start reading now and join in!
- With two months to get Thriller done, we dug in and really hit it. Quincy remembers Michael.
- Physicist explains how a styrofoam cup can break a windshield.
- Taco Bell's new green menu takes no ingredients from nature.
- Video: When stuck in traffic for more than two hours, make a video about being stuck in traffic for 18 years.
- The crisis in Honduras...is pitting Mr. Obama against the ghosts of past American foreign policy in Latin America.
- Op: Following weeks of political theater, photo ops, and a baited coup, Chávez emerges as the winner in Honduras.
- Six years and three months after the March 2003 invasion, U.S. combat troops withdraw from Iraqi cities.
- The court's decision...seemed to ensure much more litigation over the explosive issue of employment discrimination.
- The problem with philosophy: inherent racism.
- "It's a well-kept secret." The increasing incidence of height augmentation ushers in a weird new era of cosmetic surgery.
- Video: How increased life expectancy is making retirement an impossibility.
- We can attribute the human predisposition for sleeping around (and in more extreme cases, raping and killing) to pieces of genetic code.
- Twenty visualizations that explore publically available crime data.
- New findings prove that our brains are constantly functioning on the brink of chaos.
- An interview with architect and editor Michael Sorkin, whose latest book came to fruition from walking around New York.
- From the attic: How to walk in New York; a walk up the length of Manhattan.
- Though Sonic Youth may not make hits, they've been remaking our culture for the past 28 years.