Israel and the Blessed Unrest
Fifteen seconds will never mean the same to me again. A small kibbutz called Kfar Aza (or more affectionately, the Gaza Village) flourishes with the young and old who seek a life of simplicity, love...
View ArticleA Vertical World
A perfect vertical view, as many of our Big Apple high-rise buildings offer, can be enjoyed from my office window. Down there, gracefully stretching over two Fifth Avenue city blocks is the New York...
View ArticleListen to the D-Day Generation, Their Time Is Running Short
Seventy years ago, a few days after Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches, a young Army Air Corps lieutenant, sitting up late at night at a small bedside desk in a Quonset hut in southeastern...
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IKEA Figures Out When You Have Sex, Work On The Toilet
Seventeen percent of New Yorkers have worked while on the toilet. Thirteen percent of Mumbaikars have morning sex. And women in Moscow wear almost as much perfume as Parisian mademoiselles. This is all...
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Satellite Spots Wreckage Of Cold War Spy Plane On Remote Ice Sheet
In 1947, a crash landing left wreckage from a U.S. Army plane frozen in time on a remote ice sheet in northwest Greenland. A new satellite image, released by NASA's Earth Observatory, shows the...
View ArticleCharting A New Course
The success or failure of the newly established Palestinian unity government rests on its ability and willingness to chart a new course in its relations with Israel and its commitment to peace. Having...
View ArticleLiu Bolin - Hiding in the City
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. Liu Bolin's "Hiding in the City" series stems from his questioning of, and reflection on, the development of manmade civilization and its social...
View ArticleTruths and Lies About the World Cup
With only a few days to go before the beginning of the World Cup, one of the main concerns of journalists like myself is the amount of bad information that is getting published abroad. A couple of...
View ArticleChina Says Climate Deal Hinges On Aid To Emerging Economies
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany, June 6 (Reuters) - China led calls by emerging economies on Friday for the rich to raise financial aid to the poor as a precondition for a...
View ArticleThe Real Nature of America's Child Migrant Crisis
In the past seven months, over 47,000 unaccompanied children have been caught crossing the southwest border of the United States. This number is a 92 percent increase over the same period of time in...
View Article10 Buildings That Look Like Penises (PHOTOS)
In an episode from the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Ted's firm designs a skyscraper for a bank. The only problem is that it looks like a giant penis. Architects in real life can't seem to avoid the...
View ArticleU.S. Seeks Redactions In Drone Strike Memo Ruling
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government, citing possible "exceptionally grave harm to national security," told a federal appeals court it wants to give the public less information about its legal...
View ArticleHow Hezbollah Is Changing the War in Syria - and Vice Versa
BEIRUT - Hezbollah is changing the shape of the war in Syria - but the war is also changing Hezbollah, with potentially far-reaching results. Hezbollah's intervention in Syria has achieved significant...
View ArticleSarah Palin Advises Bowe Bergdahl To Buy Rosetta Stone, Learn To Speak ‘KickAss'
Amid recent reports that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is having difficulty speaking English after spending five years in Taliban captivity, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin doubled down on her criticism of the...
View ArticleFreed Taliban Commander Tells Relative He'll Fight Americans Again
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - One of the five Taliban leaders freed from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release has pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan, according to a fellow...
View ArticleWATCH: Her Online Dating Strategy May Seem Insane.. Until You See The Results
Online dating sites are supposed to help you find your perfect match - but for Amy Webb, all they helped her find were duds. Her grandmother said she was being too picky, but Webb knew there had to be...
View ArticlePope Francis Dreams Of Middle East Peace Through Prayer With Abbas And Peres
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis is seeking to rekindle the dream of peace by bringing the Israeli and Palestinian presidents together this weekend for a unique common prayer for peace in the Vatican...
View ArticleRafael Nadal And Novak Djokovic To Meet In French Open Final
PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal is going for No. 9 at the French Open, and the only man that can stop him is Novak Djokovic. Nadal is already a record eight-time champion with a lifetime 65-1 record at...
View ArticleHungary's U-Turn
It wasn't long after Francis Fukuyama published his "end of history" thesis that the war in Yugoslavia definitively wrecked his argument. How could the world be heading inexorably in the direction of...
View ArticleOne Soccer Ball, Eight Minutes Of Madness That Doesn't Look Real
Rémi Gaillard is really good with a soccer ball. Like, really, really good. Okay... I don't think you get it. He is a magician. But, instead of rabbits and cards, he has a soccer ball. And the world to...
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