- The Age of Innocence17 May 2012, 4:00 am
It’s no wonder Europe and the United States are facing debt crises and political dysfunction at the same time.... - The ESPN Man14 May 2012, 4:00 am
With all the fundamentals gone haywire, why is Obama staying competitive at the polls?... - The Structural Revolution8 May 2012, 4:00 am
We can either continue to patch up our economic problems or address the underlying sources with hard but necessary structural reforms.... - The Campus Tsunami4 May 2012, 4:00 am
What happened to the newspaper and magazine business is about to happen to higher education: a rescrambling around the Web and online learning.... - Warfare or Courtship in 2012?1 May 2012, 4:00 am
Some people view politics like war. Others prefer to see it as a wooing dance. Which prism will win votes in 2012?...
- Apocalypse Fairly Soon17 May 2012, 4:00 am
As Europe jogs toward its endgame, the euro could still be saved. But that would require major changes from European leaders.... - Why We Regulate13 May 2012, 4:00 am
Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase couldn’t make the reason clearer.... - Easy Useless Economics11 May 2012, 4:00 am
Making excuses to not do anything about current unemployment isn’t just cruel and wasteful, it’s bad long-run policy, too.... - Those Revolting Europeans7 May 2012, 4:00 am
How dare the French and Greeks reject a failed strategy!... - Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity4 May 2012, 4:00 am
Inequality is a major reason the economy is still so depressed and unemployment so high, and we have responded to crisis with a mix of inaction and confusion....
- 6 things Facebook says about America18 May 2012, 1:17 pm
Editor's note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer/correspondent, she is the author of "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television." The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Frida Ghitis. Facebook's $104 billion initial [...]...
- What is social inclusion, and how is it lacking in Latin America?17 May 2012, 8:42 pm
Editor's note: Christopher Sabatini is the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and senior director of policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas. The views in this article are solely those of Christopher Sabatini. By Christopher Sabatini - Special to CNN Social inclusion. Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has theorized about it. Peruvian President Ollanta Humala campaigned [...]... - Time for Greece to say 'danke' to Germany17 May 2012, 8:29 pm
Everyone is worried that Greece will default on its national debt. That's really not news. By one estimate, since it gained its independence from the Ottomans in 1832, Greece has been in default or restructuring for half this period. The news is that this time, Germany is willing to bail it out. Throughout the euro-zone [...]... - The marijuana debate, a judge's plea and readers' thoughts17 May 2012, 4:39 pm
Ahead of a New York state bill that would recognize marijuana for medical purposes, a state supreme judge with cancer writes in its favor in a recent New York Times op-ed. Gustin L. Reichbach, a justice of the New York State Supreme Court, has spent the last three and a half years battling pancreatic cancer [...]... - Fareed is taking your questions17 May 2012, 1:02 pm
What's going on in the world? What topic would you like to hear Fareed's take on? From the U.S. presidential race to unrest in Syria, from China's rise to the latest on Iran — and all points in between — submit your questions to Fareed Zakaria in the comments below. He'll share his thoughts in later posts. [...]...
- Books: Wenguang Huang’s “The Little Red Guard” review.14 May 2012, 4:00 am
Humor is not the first thing one expects from a memoir that occupies itself with burial rites, but this lively chronicle of a Maoist-era family and its contraband coffin inspires as many laughs as it does tears. Huang begins his story in 1973, when, at the age of nine . . . (Subscription required.)... - Goings on About Town: Dance14 May 2012, 4:00 am
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET In addition to repeat performances of the season’s new ballets—Benjamin Millepied’s “Two Hearts” and Peter Martins’s “Mes Oiseaux”—this week brings the return of Balanchine’s rapturous “Liebeslieder Walzer . . .... - Tad Friend: Dustin Lance Black on making “Virginia.”14 May 2012, 4:00 am
8220;All Southern literature,” the mother of the writer Pat Conroy once told him, “can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’ ” This week, the writer-director Dustin Lance . . . (Subscription required.)... - Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks14 May 2012, 4:00 am
goatTitle-->WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART The German filmmaker Werner Herzog talks about contemporary art, as well as his contribution to the Biennial, with the co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. (945 Madison Ave., at 75th St. 212-570-3600. May 17 at noon.) BOWERY POETRY CLUB Marion . . .... - T. R. Hummer: “Shackleton’s Biscuit.”14 May 2012, 4:00 am
Of ox and luncheon tongue, six hundred pounds; of Wiltshire bacon, seven-tenths of a ton. Seventeen hundred miles they walked, And it was pony meat that saved them. But one biscuit, this one of thousands, baked By Huntley & Palmers, a special formulation fortified with milk protein, survives— . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Come the Revolution15 May 2012, 4:00 am
Through ventures like Coursera, world-class learning is coming at bargain-basement prices.... - This Column Is Not Sponsored by Anyone12 May 2012, 4:00 am
Politics may have America divided, but markets do, too, especially in a society where everything is up for sale.... - Jobs@Arabia.com9 May 2012, 4:00 am
A plan is taking hold for entrepreneurs, not government, to lead the way in creating new businesses in Jordan.... - Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way6 May 2012, 4:00 am
In the awakening Arab world, who is going to step up and speak the truth?... - Tanks, Jets or Scholarships?2 May 2012, 4:00 am
Let’s stop sending planes and tanks to the Arab world and start sending scholarships instead. Just look at the difference it’s making in Lebanon....
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