This Modern World

Escalating in Afghanistan? But ... but ... he never even mentioned the possibility!

Target calls cops on nursing mother

Security guards at a Michigan store tell a woman that feeding her baby in public is illegal

Shocking news: The world is stable!

China dominance? U.S. decline and fall? Believe it when you see it

What can we learn from the MySpace debacle?

Even Rupert Murdoch is subject to the power of nearly unlimited consumer choice

Why the climate talks will be a disaster

Politics-as-usual won't solve our most pressing problem, no matter what Obama brings to the table

A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo

Why is the Obama DOJ attempting to block judicial review of three highly suspicious deaths?

Becoming a piece of meat

Julie Powell's racy follow-up to "Julie and Julia" -- and why she's fine becoming the new poster child for S/M

The best nonfiction books of 2009

True stories about science, art, crime and American history

Santorum "taking a look" at 2012

Another conservative, the former senator from Pennsylvania, eyes the next presidential race

GOP attacks Reid for slavery-healthcare comparison

Republicans attack the majority leader over his comments on healthcare, social progress

A lesson in subprime lending insanity

New Century Finance specialized in making mortgage loans that practically begged borrowers to default

Stupak's spitting image

Sen. Ben Nelson's antiabortion amendment is just as bad as its precursor in the House

A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo

Why is the Obama DOJ attempting to block judicial review of three highly suspicious deaths?

Sympathy for the devil worshipers

Inside Norway's infamous black-metal scene: Misunderstood Robin Hoods or Satanic church-burning maniacs?

The poster boy for progressive self-delusion

Read Hayden's 2008 Obama endorsement to remember the way the left sold our centrist president to itself