The 10 at 10
1. Elizabeth Taylor outlived her obituary writer. 2. The worst mother in the world. 3. Mom, I think grandma just tried to kill someone. 4. No Qatar, you shouldn’t need one of these. 5. Who supplies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 10 at 10
1. What did the president actually say last night? 2. Hate will make us friends. 3. Breakups are painful. No, really. 4. Michael J. Fox or Teen Wolf? 5. The cold-blooded business of The New York...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 10 at 10
1. Stephen Colbert sings “Friday.” 2. Hillary Clinton is the most popular person in the White House. 3. Hands-free faucets are a scam. 4. Seif Gaddafi is a terrible son and horrible leader. 5. Don’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
R.I.P. Tim Hetherington
I’ve seen hundreds of war movies in my lifetime, from dramas like The Thin Red Line to documentaries like Iraq in Fragments, but none ever felt truer than Restrepo, the 2010 doc directed by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 10 at 10
1. What can LeBron learn from Muhammad Ali? 2. The New York Observer identified C.I.A. John. 3. Gizmodo looks at the Libyan Revolution through a helmet-cam. 4. Harry Potter and the license to print...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 10 at 10
1. The Internet is older than college freshmen. 2. Musings from a male model. 3. How do you treat a dying child? 4. Shave your own head. 5. Samsung says Apple stole their iPad. 6. Legendary basketball...
View ArticleClik here to view.
#1 Witness
#1 Witness A member of the 82nd Airborne survives the war only to lose his baby daughter in his arms when he gets home. A hairdresser, off heroin temporarily, takes a newly clean kid aside and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remembering Tim
[Skip to Photo Gallery | Kamber-Hetherington Interview (Audio)] Few people knew Tim Hetherington—who died April 20 covering the war in Libya—as well as fellow photojournalist Michael Kamber. Here,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rankism: The Poison that Destroys Relationships
Robert Fuller discusses the roots of discrimination and assaults on human dignity. Relationships take many forms but they’re all vulnerable to the same poison—rankism. Relationships can be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Death of American Ambassador Stevens May Be Linked to al Qaeda
Stevens, friend of the Libya Revolution, died after a call for revenge by Al Qaeda was posted online Monday for the death of it’s No. 2 commander, a native of Libya. Events in Libya may well be linked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How the Extreme Right is Wronging America
Protests in Libya and Egypt embolden Cameron Conaway’s belief: We need to wage a war of peace and this means calling out bigots. Gandhi said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,” but what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Should Anderson Cooper Have Shared Contents of Late Ambassador’s Diary?
When Anderson Cooper first mentioned that Ambassador Chris Stevens was afraid for his security, he said this: “A source familiar with Ambassador Stevens’ thinking says that in the months before his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anger of Muslims, Part 2: Making Sense in 3D
The violence in the Middle East makes sense when viewed from sufficient perspectives. This was previously published on New Plateaus. Read the first part of this series, Anger of Muslims, here on The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video: A Muslim’s Perspective on Religion and Protests
Haroon Moghul, a Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University and Fellow at New America Foundation and Center on National Security at Fordham Law, sits down with Don Lemon of CNN to offer a more balanced...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Syrian Internet and Mobile Communication Blackout
GoogleMaps Arik Hasseldahl of the website AllThingsD.com reports on a troubling development from Syria: The research firm Renesys, which keeps track of the status and health of the technical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two Dead in Suicide Bombing at US Embassy in Turkey
The US and Turkish governments are working in unison to investigate the most recent attack on a US Embassy. The US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, was attacked by a suicide bomber early Friday. According...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Engaging Iraq a Humanitarian Imperative or Military Folly?
World involvement in Iraq is critical to saving lives and preventing a destabilized region from erupting into full chaos with disastrous worldwide implications US military has engaged in air strikes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Return Of George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
The American people may think that George W. Bush’s presidency was a disaster, but the Republican Party is still committed to his foreign policy vision. Over at Vox yesterday Zach Beauchamp had a nice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Misrata dawn
Helen Wing gives voice to the horrors perpetrated on young women and men in the 2011 Libyan uprising. — Misrata dawn The girls are quiet. There have been twenty of us before. The captain beats us...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hello, My Name Is Luay. I Was a Refugee
Luay Al Khatteeb can identify with the plight of refugees and with the countries struggling to provide for them. That doesn’t excuse us from helping. — Once upon a time I was a refugee who, unlike...
View Article
