World
France Detains Top Uber Execs After Cabbie Riots Against Peaceful Ride Service
Street violence goads French officials into physically grabbing organizers of helpful services
CNN Can't Tell the Difference Between Arabic, Dildos
Is ISIS infiltrating The Gays? A CNN exclusive!
WATCH: How Germany Forgot the Horrors of Communism
25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany is seen as a quirk of history, not a monstrous police state.
Blood and Leviathan
A Stanford historian thinks war is the engine that drives civilization. Is he right?
Greek P.M. Tells Europe What It Can Do With Its Debt Repayment Deadline
Alexis Tsipras is officially calling for a referendum.
Martin O'Malley and the Liberal Hawks
The Democratic presidential candidate lays out a foreign policy agenda-and takes a swipe at Clinton over Benghazi.
Federal Cybersecurity: Not Even Good Enough for Government Work
Epic government fail, yet no one is responsible.
"How the Feds Asked Me to Rat Out Commenters" - And Why We Pushed Back
This sort of thing is one more reason why confidence in government is at all-time lows.
Battle Brewing Over Dutch Drones Scheduled to Drop Abortion Drugs in Poland
The "abortion drones" are scheduled to launch from Germany this Friday and deliver prohibited pills to Poland, where abortion remains mostly illegal.
Heading Into Weekend With No Deal, Greeks Rush to Withdraw Cash
This is what a bank run looks like.
Fast Track Authority for Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Pact Passes in House (Again) Today
It already passed the Senate. Now it has to again.
Hillary's So Old, She'd Be the Same Age as Ronald Reagan Was When He Entered the White House
Hillary Clinton is physically and mentally fit for the office. But her policies are absolutely tired, backward-looking & so last-century.
Is Obama's War Against ISIS Legal?
The president's rationalization for autocratic military action is a license for unchecked global war.
Deutschland 83 Brings Drama and Humor of Cold War Germany to American TV
New Cold War coming of age/spy thriller series premieres on SundanceTV.
"Why Libertarianism is Closer to Stalinism Than You Think": Except for, you know, mass murders, gulags, and all the rest.
Sociologist Alan Wolfe rants against Rand Paul & a philosophy that would legalize drugs, allow gay marriage, open the borders, and avoid non-defensive wars.
The U.S. Patent System is Broken: Derek Khanna on Trolling and Low-Quality Patents
Our current patent policy hurts our economy and hampers innovation.
Libertarian Moment Update: "Wall Street is getting tired of funding socially conservative Republicans…"
The future clearly belongs to socially liberal, fiscally conservative candidates. Which means Dems and Reps have some growing up to do.
The Illiberal Persecution of Tim Hunt
An old guys tells a bad joke and academia descends into a frenzy
The Relentless March Toward a New Universal Agreement on Climate Change
Rich countries commit to total decarbonization of the global economy.
Trans Pacific Partnership Roundup: On the Eve of Its Fast Track House Vote, The Politics Remain Twisted
Until fast track passes, no one can really be sure how to act about the trade pact itself.
Creditors Lose Patience, Walk Out of Negotiations With Greece
Looming threat of Grexit still looming
Abolish Secretive Special Ops Forces
For our own safety, we must disband these squads of killers.
How California Could Have Avoided Its Epic Water Crisis
Joel Kotkin on the causes and repercussions of the Golden State disaster.
Ted Cruz Going After the Libertarian-Hawk Vote
Are there libertarian-leaning Republicans who think Rand Paul is too soft on ISIS?
Ralph Nader Blames Hillary Clinton's Lady Bits for Her "Shocking" Militarism
So what explains Obama's and Bush's? A pressing point gets lost in pop psychologizing.
Europe Goes Down the Memory Hole With the 'Right to Be Forgotten'
Nothing says "freedom" like forcing people to alter the historical record
19 Things in Rand Paul's New Book No Other GOP A-Lister Would Be Caught Dead Saying
From quoting Glenn Greenwald to calling Marco Rubio a 'so-called conservative' to saying the Republican brand 'sucks,' the Kentucky senator is living up to the whole 'new kind of Republican' thing
The PC Revolution is Eating Its Own, But What Sort of Shit Comes Next?
Political correctness is dying. The university must now embrace unfettered intellectual debate and dialogue as the way forward.
"The story of technology is in fact the story of textiles."
Epic piece about how the threads that make the clothes we wear are figuratively the fabric of our lives.
A Pretty Goddamn Good Ode to Flyover Country
Here is the thing about America: There is ultimately no center to anything at all except for the one you make for yourself.
Lenore Skenazy Talks Free-Range Kids on Daily Show…
and is the hero of the segment, which skewers hysterical fears about our children, who are safer than ever.
On Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre, Hong Kong's Occupy Protesters Fight Their Own Fight
The Umbrella Movement is focused on its own struggle, not mainland China's.
Vid: The Joe Biden Joke That Got Ted Cruz in Trouble
This is the latest example of how social media empowers the audience, not the "star."
Ron Paul Talks to Larry King about Rand's Run for the White House, Irish Gay Marriage, Iranian Nukes, and Trans-Pacific Partnership
"We've got too many laws," says the libertarian firebrand.
When Guns Are Outlawed, Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Will Build Some Wacky Boomsticks
If you ban it, they will come
"Only the Republicans Can Clean Up the Surveillance Mess They Made" - And They Are!
The intra-party fight over Patriot Act & USA Freedom Act is a sign we're finally moving past 9/11 politics.
