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Once known for its cool and revolutionary attitude, Apple now appears to have gone soft, using canned emotional appeals to market its iPhone, says The Atlantic's Niraj Chokshi.
Christopher Hitchens heaps rare praise on The New York Times for its story on tax breaks given to pro-Israeli foundations who oppose a two-state solution, contradicting stated U.S. policy.
Eliot Spitzer is branded "disgraced" while David Vitter and Newt Gingrich are not. Glenn Greenwald at Salon asks what moral standards the so-called liberal media are applying.
Though oil companies like BP are the target of popular anger—private companies with selfish profit motives harvesting environmentally suicidal energy—the biggest oil companies are state-owned.
Despite widespread fears of a “double dip” recession, Wall Street is hiring again in droves, a sign that the financial industry anticipates a strong economic recovery. According to The New […]
Feminist attorney Gloria Allred is no stranger to high-profile cases—she’s best known for representing women and families in big-money lawsuits against the likes of Tiger Woods, Aaron Spelling, O.J. Simpson, […]
"The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill is a complex, disorderly, politically motivated, and not well thought out reaction to the financial crisis," says Nobel Laureate Gary Becker.
"The class warfare we need is a conservative class warfare," says Ross Douthat at The New York Times. Making everyone pay their debts and fewer middle class taxes is his battle plan.
"Knowing more than one language is an asset in the global economy. Schools should be helping all students, English learners as well as English-only speakers, expand beyond one tongue."
"For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it?" Newsweek says a more active approach to teaching creativity is needed.
The promotion of math and science in Muslim countries would serve American interests better than starting wars, says an Obama science advisor and Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail.
The first age-friendly city in the world, New York City is opening a new branch of urban planning: environmental gerontology. The idea is to make cities more accessible to our elders.
Al Jazeera reports on the highly disproportionate allocation of public funds in Jerusalem. Palestinian neighborhoods suffer from lack of infrastructure while Israeli ones do not.
The cap-and-trade market that successfully reduced acid-rain emissions is threatened by new federal regulations, says The Wall Street Journal. Could cap-and-trade work as well for carbon?
"Money doesn’t buy happiness all on its own purchasing power, but rather happiness comes indirectly from the higher status money provides." Relative income is what counts, says new research.
Two recent experiments suggest that taking a common pain reliever can ease emotional as well as physical pain. The Boston Globe reports on a surprising new find.
Ethan Epstein at True/Slant says that legalizing physician assisted suicide, instead of giving individuals more freedom, would limit individuals' control by creating a new bureaucracy.
"The Internet is a Soviet bread line," says Damon Darlin at The New York Times. Sure we are elated at all the "free" content, but we lose hours and hours searching for what we want.
"The world we live in is so overrun with environmental pollutants that it is next to impossible to keep oneself truly healthy." Sadhbh Walshe at The Guardian laments the lack of regulation.
"When the world’s productive capacities exceed the buying power of the world’s consumers, every government wants to increase exports and discourage imports. That spells trade war."