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"Where does the federal government get off spending the average person's tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars?" Slate on the electric car credit.
"I love a good deal, but as consumer prices keep hitting rock bottom, this is just getting scary." A Salon staffer says our culture of cheap is morally dubious and corrodes standards.
"Two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, chaos prevails in Dagestan, primarily because of the activities of radical Islamists." The region is impossible to govern, says Spiegel.
"New forms of communication have exposed the fact that the voice call is badly designed. It deserves to die." An author at Wired says lighter forms of communication are superior.
The secret military reports leaked by WikiLeaks demonstrates that while official strategy is to empower Afghanis to run a modern country, the Afghans treat foreigners as the true power.
A Harvard psychologist and dream expert explains how it is possible to influence what you are dreaming about whether you want to fly, stop a nightmare, or have lucid dreams.
"Boredom may be an intrinsic part of life for practically everyone, but it needn't be destructive. In fact, boredom can be a force for good." Give kids freedom, says one commenter at The Guardian.
"The fears about online wagering are demonstrably bogus," says Steve Chapman at The Chicago Tribune, who was pleasantly surprised when a House committee approved online gambling.
"Looking around the United States in the summer of 2010, hysterical moral panic seems an apt description of our fevered political condition." A columnist on our nation's current "moral panic".
Social networks like Twitter not only blur the line between public and private selves, but also between authentic and contrived ones. An author finds herself inventing her own psychology.
There is at least one way of guaranteeing Western media interest in the United Nations; a leaked letter from a disgruntled former employee that attacks a “leaking culture” within the […]
They have always loved him. But now the media is more in love with President Clinton than ever, as they have something simple and straightforward to celebrate: the marriage of […]
Michael Grunwald wrote in Time yesterday that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill might not be as disastrous as we thought. It’s not that it hasn’t had some serious consequences, obviously. […]
The FBI today released the 423-page file they had kept over the years on left-wing historian Howard Zinn, who died in January. When Zinn sat for an interview with Big […]
In rural India, over half of all households don’t have electricity. To light households and power commercial equipment, villages use kerosene lanterns, which are both expensive and environmentally harmful. But […]
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A conversation with the founder of the Guardian Angels
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“You wouldn’t be able to get married in my society until you were 30,” says Sliwa.
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Crime is under better control than it was 30 years ago, but recession era cuts to police budgets threaten the status quo.
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Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa demonstrates three potential scenarios for a wannabe “do-gooder” to perform a citizen’s arrest.
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Despite what “brainiacs” from the Ivy League may say, Curtis Sliwa insists that citizens arrests have been “embedded in the fabric of the law since the Magna Carta.”