Creating an alternative world inhabited by characters we can care about isn't easy. Yet Shteyngart, without resorting to pyrotechnics, insinuates his readers into an original, engaging and frightening world.

Part Two: Surviving The Century. Does science have the answers to help us save our planet? In the second of this year's Reith Lectures, Lord Martin Rees continues to explore the challenges facing science in the 21st century. Our planet is coming under increasing strain from climate change, population explosion and food shortages. How can we use science to help us solve the crisis that we are ...

Winston Churchill said it best: There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. But which of the many IT and data storage rumors are true and which are hogwash? Take your pick.

In the maelstrom of rhetoric that swirls around the Middle East the warnings of Hezbollah should ring alarm bells. Concern that the investigation into the...

The worsening economic and political plight of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people in this nation grows ever more perilous by the day.

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Yesterday's federal court decision to enjoin enforcement of the Arizona immigration law is the latest example of a virtually unchecked renegade federal government waging war against the states and against the liberties of its citizens.

Where are the men, when pretenders create pornography?

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday that he was totally against repealing the ban on team orders in Formula One.

Is a public TV station licensed to a state university system an agency of the state if a legislative committee says so?

The text of the voice mail left on Booker's phone was revealed Wednesday in a report released by the office of the Attorney General but supervised by independent counsel Judith Kaye, the state's former chief judge. The report said Paterson and some gubernatorial aides made "errors of judgment" but did not act criminally, and that there was no evidence that the State Police or Paterson's staff ...

Thomas Jefferson Tenther Tom Emmer meet Tenther Tom Jefferson By Eric Black | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 More and more I am convinced that Tentherism is the key to the biggest ideological divide in American political culture. For Minnesotans, understanding Tentherism is vital to understanding Bachmannism and Emmerism.

Over the weekend, Sen. Al Franken made the corporate takeover of our media, and the government's acquiescence to these corporations, frighteningly clear.

Margaret Cho gave me some of her time recently to discuss the August 24th release of her new album Cho Dependent. News Flash: Girlfriend can...

Will-he-or-won't-he refrain lacks same punch as training camp begins

For years now the imperial judiciary of Israel has demonstrated a clear bias against things and people religious and the traditional values and heritage of a Jewish people described in the Torah (Bible) as a "Nation of Priests and a Holy People".

MANILA, Philippines The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday chose the members of the ethics committee that will investigate the plagiarism allegedly committed by Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo when he penned the decision rejecting a petition by Filipino comfort women to compel government to support their claims for compensation against Japan.

Construction of a new, 9,000-square-foot facility is expected to be complete in 2011

U.S. women religious, whose leaders meet in Dallas next month, find themselves in a terrible position. On one hand, they can defend their approach to religious life.

Source: Human Rights Watch (Moscow) - The de facto authorities of South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, should promptly investigate the vicious attack on a civic activist and hold those responsible to account, Human ...

Legal observers say action could succeed in throwing out prayers.