Police in South Africa, Mexico Embroiled in Scandals
270 South Africans striking outside a platinum mine in Marikana have been arrested and charged with murder in a striking legal indirection, the BBC reports. Violence erupted in Marikana on […]
270 South Africans striking outside a platinum mine in Marikana have been arrested and charged with murder in a striking legal indirection, the BBC reports. Violence erupted in Marikana on […]
If America is a land of excess, L.A. is a city of controlled excess. It’s a place where excess is briefly muzzled, spritzed with enough cologne to euthanize a dingo, […]
This is the state of our journalism. By “state,” I mean the stuff that apparently matters to people who read the news. And by “our journalism,” I mean the grubby, […]
It’s Julia Child’s 100th anniversary, and PBS has remixed some classic footage of the Juke cooking and warbling like a songbird. My guess is that PBS hired a contractor do […]
Justin Bieber. Tweens flock to him like Europeans to Ibiza—some because they must, others because they think they must. You probably know about Bieber, or have heard his songs, if […]
Oh, God—say it ain’t so. A dreadful massacre is in the offing. The culprit? Smug faddists in the publishing industry who look at E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey and drool like […]
It’s been a rough couple of months for the science Wunderkind. Jonah Lehrer resigned today from his post at the New Yorker after acknowledging that he fabricated quotes in his most […]
Our neighbors to the north have just lurched into the lead. That’s right, the Canadian household is officially more prosperous than the U.S. household. According to a study by Environics […]
What should be done about Joe Paterno’s statue? The reputation that was groomed for so long seems to be unraveling, thread by thread. Joe Paterno, the now-deceased football coach of […]
When Michelle Beadle announced in late May that she would be leaving ESPN for NBC, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network was faced with a dillema: how to replicate the […]