Media consultant Frédéric Filloux dissects the dire situation of the French press (generalizable to most western media?) and the likely fate of the flagship daily, Le Monde.

A U.K. health watchdog's call for “life-saving” food labeling and other dietary changes has met with an unenthusiastic government response.

Peering at the future of liberal education, Eric Jansson predicts that close faculty-student and student-student interaction will remain the core no matter the fancy technology.

Having staggered through one recession—and without emerging the other side of it—Britain now seems destined for another. This time it will really hurt. A Martian arriving in London, or rather […]

This morning on Morning JoeNiall Ferguson compared General McChrystal to Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz from Heart of Darkness, a character uniquely immortalized by Marlon Brando in Francis Ford Coppola’s film (inspired […]

Any art lover who has been to Paris knows what it’s like to try to see everything in a finite time frame. Cruel choices must be made, masterpieces must be […]

If women ran the world, different things would be engineered and invented. Unfortunately, many female scientists get sidetracked.

From our leakage radiation, an alien would be able to tell quite a bit about the planet, including the length of our day, the size of the planet, and even […]

The potential detection of signals from outer space raises many questions. What’s the overarching plan? Who would speak on behalf of our planet? What would they say?

Researchers at SETI are using radio telescopes to listen specifically for signals that are “obviously engineered”—something that nature, at least as far as we know, can’t produce.

The board game has been a national pastime in Russia since well before the Bolshevik Revolution.

The American grandmaster was an impulsive individualist who had an incapacitating fear of losing, says the man who became world chess champion when Fischer refused to show up at the […]

The thirteenth world chess champion had an unrivaled mastery of opening-move theory and was unstoppable when he had the initiative. But “he was not so strong when his king was […]

The Russian grandmaster admits that he found it boring to study chess openings.

The twelfth world chess champion says that, even when things were bleak, he “never lost the will to fight.”

Definitely, says Anatoly Karpov, if marketed correctly. That’s why the Russian grandmaster wants to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation.

The media entrepreneur defends his online aggregation site Newser and explains his lofty alternate career plans.

From the age of four, Anatoly Karpov saw great beauty in chess. He made the game his profession and was the world champion for a decade, from 1975 to 1985.

If the weekly magazine is still being published 25 years from now, Michael Wolff will owe David Remnick a dinner.

Once the paper begins charging for online content in January, the question will be: What does the New York Times become without its readers?