The legendary musician introduced a lot of people to traditional music. In the bargain, they met a great man, Malcolm Jones writes.
The Daily Pic: Lucio Fontana doesnt always slice-up the same.
London heats up as Jubilee preparations get underway.
Even in the aftermath of the brutal killings of 108 people by pro-regime militias, Moscow is standing by its longtime ally.
Tonight, Wednesday May 30, I'll be having a drink at Washington D.C.'s Local 16 (1602 U Street NW) from 8 pm to 10 pm. Stop by if you'd like to have a book signed, chat about this blog...
A 48-year gap between women collecting a single delegate underscores the reasons Republicans can’t close the gender gap, writes Ben Jacobs.
Israeli right-wingers have it rough. After last week’s Tel Aviv riot against African immigrants, likudniks like MKs Danny Danon (who said, “The infiltrators are a national plague”) and Miri Regev (wh...
After decades of utter neglect and seven years of legal struggle, the Jewish State has agreed to officially recognize a handful of rabbis who aren’t Orthodox:
Fox News has now skipped ahead to out-and-out attack advertising.
How to understand a nation as chaotic—yet important—as Pakistan? Lorraine Adams on Mohammed Hanif’s radiant new novel.
Some members of the Australian Green Party believe that their party platform to support 'marriage for all' means that the party must support polyamorous marriage. Guess who disagrees? Gay m...
Every time I hear about a massacre like last Friday’s in Houla, Syria, I think back to Srebrenica, the July 1995 Bosnian massacre that helped turn me—and many other post-Vietnam era journalists and p...
"Polish death camp": Obama must correct this, the most shameful thing hes ever said as president.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
President Obama just slapped in the face one of America's closest allies in Europe. I'm looking for comment in the American media, and I find … wire stories reporting a spokesman's apo...
Stewart delivers a fine turn in Snow White and the Huntsman, but why do people hate her? By Marlow Stern.
Romney is hanging out with Trump because seeing the media in a tizzy elates right-wingers.
Paolo Gabriele, once the pontiff’s confidante, has been silenced. By Barbie Latza Nadeau.
"We are demanding from the state that it encourage us to come here." --Settler Didi Dikstein, who lives in the Givat Ulpana neighborhood that was built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Britain cleared the way for the extradition of the WikiLeaks mastermind to Sweden. By Mike Giglio.
Now, you're going to have to excuse the Royalist's idiocy, but I didn't even know there was a £100 banknote. But it seems there is, in the super rich haven of the isle of Jersey (where...
William uses the F-word
Mitt’s still captivated by extremists like birther Donald Trump—and behaving as if his captors are his friends, says John Avlon.
As the country looks toward a June presidential runoff, Egypt’s dreaded security agencies remain loathsome relics of Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
The author of sophisticated popular philosophy books like talks to Noah Charney about how his mother helps him write about very complicated ideas.
A generation after Ronald Reagan planted the idea, states embrace a scientifically dubious concept as a way to limit abortion, reports Allison Yarrow.
Fred R. Shapiro, coeditor of a dictionary of viral sayings, picks the quirkiest lines of folk wisdoms.
From Tea Party Senate survivor Ted Cruz to Romney sealing the nomination, Ben Jacobs on the big stories.
This is just awful. President Obama today bestowed a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, the courier from Warsaw who tried to alert an indifferent world—including an indifferent United States...
The plant was closed after a radiation leak this winter. But fears of summer blackouts may trump safety concerns.
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