A German graduate student in oceanography at M.I.T. applied to the Transportation Security Administration for a new ID card allowing him to work around ships and docks.
What the student, Wilken-Jon von Appen, received… Continue reading
May 13
How Empires Fall
In a new book that will infuriate the fake conservatives who inhabit the Republican Party, Patrick J. Buchanan documents how British self-righteousness, delusion, and hubris destroyed both the British Empire and Western ascendancy… Continue reading
May 13
Data Mining Your Life
Few Americans pay attention to the Bush administration’s effort to better monitor terrorist communications. In short, federal authorities want to indirectly void the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which requires a… Continue reading
Underage drinkers who attempt to buy alcohol may be thwarted by the technology that police use to identify suspected criminals.
A supermarket chain is introducing face recognition cameras to prevent staff mistakenly selling cigarettes… Continue reading
IN OCTOBER, if the Bush administration has its way with the Supreme Court, you will lose the right to sue a drug company if you are harmed by a… Continue reading
The following is an excerpt from “Dying to Get High” by Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb (NYU Press, 2008). (c) 2008 NYU Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.For many modern critics, the concept… Continue reading
Gordon Brown: Proposing ‘age tax’
Every working family could face paying an "ageing tax" to provide care for the
elderly, Gordon Brown proposed yesterday.
It would take the form of… Continue reading
Students are startled as pigeons flap their wings to fly upward at a park in eastern Seoul, Tuesday. / Yonhap
By Bae… Continue reading
Parents claiming that childhood vaccines cause autism should not be rewarded by the courts when the scientific community has already rejected any link, government lawyers argued Monday on the first day of a hearing in… Continue reading