The New Yorker: Decades After a Risky Cold War Experiment, a Scientist Lives with Secrets
Colonel James S. Ketchum dreamed of a war without killing…
In this week’s issue, Raffi Khatchadourian illuminates the history and the contested legacy of a secret Cold War experiment that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers. “The drugs under review ranged from tear…
Steve Coll: Can the Muslim Brotherhood Be Trusted?
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
is grappling now with the dilemmas of seizing and holding national power, as the whole world looks on in a state of tightening anxiety.
The spectacle is riveting because the political future of Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation, hangs in the balance. It is fascinating, too, because it is a kind of proving ground for long-running debates about whether an Islamist revolutionary movement such as the Brotherhood can ever adapt itself to Western-style constitutional democracy, preserving the rights of minorities and space for individual conscience…
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The Secret Life of Cats: What You Can Learn By Putting a GPS on Your Kitty
A new book documents one family’s quest to understand their pet with the aid of technology.
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Top pictures from the past 24 hours: in this picture, survivors carry aid and belongings from the ruins of a refugee camp. At least 42 people died in a fire at a camp which is home to thousands of refugees from Myanmar, near the Thai-Myanmar border on Friday, local media reported.
The Colonel-In-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard is a Penguin.
Dave Grohl is the drummer on all three Tenacious D studio albums.
