Charlie Brooker on swine flu and fearing a lack of control

I can still remember the precise moment when I finally realised what a chronic control freak I am.

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The Forgotten Meaning of Tiananmen

"Tiananmen" is a taboo topic in China.

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Why Doctors Hate Science

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We're really leaving Iraq

By binding himself to a security agreement formally passed by the Iraqi parliament, Obama was eschewing unilateralism and the patronizing hubris that marked Bush's discourse on Iraq.

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Desperately Protecting A.I.G.'s House of Cards

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Krugman: Cash for Trash

Basically, after having spent a year and a half telling everyone that things were under control, the Bush administration says that the sky is falling, and that to save the world we have to do exactly what it says now now now.

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Do political parties matter at the local level?

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The collapse of Bush's foreign policy

The Bush administration once imagined that its presence in Afghanistan and Iraq would be anchored by friendly neighbors, Turkey to the west and Pakistan to the east.

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State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army

The State Department Turned to Contractors Such as Blackwater Amid a Fight With the Pentagon Over Personal Security in Iraq

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The hysterical party heads for the fainting couch

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Ann Arbor leads trend away from bottled water

This summer, the city council in Ann Arbor, Mich., took a stand against bottled water, passing a resolution urging the promotion of the city's tap water. At its annual art fair in July, the city sold 500 reusable water bottles for $4 apiece. The containers sold out within hours.

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Economics, Not Apathy, Exposes Chemical Plants To Danger

It's not true that no one worries about terrorists attacking chemical plants, it's just that our politics seem to leave us unable to deal with the threat.

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Why George W. Bush thinks we invaded Iraq

In the latest issue of PS: Political Science and Politics, Richard Rose recounts his meeting -- along with a few other experts -- with George W. Bush in the Oval Office.

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Security Risks of Wholesale Telephone Eavesdropping

A handful of prominent security researchers have published a report on the security risks of the large-scale eavesdropping made temporarily legal by the "Protect America Act" passed in the U.S. in August, and which may be made permanently legal soon.

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Can Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker Save the Next Democratic President?

Despite what the pundits will say, I fear the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the Hill Monday and Tuesday is not a turning point, does not give Bush breathing room, and is largely irrelevant.

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Is There a Point to Conducting Polls About Whether or not Sexual Orientation is Chosen?

Should I care what Americans think about this? Maybe it is an indirect reflection of general views on homosexuality and its acceptability. But if that is the point, why not ask questions that tackle that issue more directly?

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GOP Identity Crisis

The great drama in American politics today revolves around the question: What is the Republican Party?

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Yo, Suckers, You Like Superheroes? Watch This!

[Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is] miscast, underwritten, muddily shot, and slackly paced, but there's something captivating about its unabashed @!$%#tiness.

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Bush will pardon Scooter Libby. I guarantee it.

Judge Reggie Walton set the pardon alarm clock today. Scooter Libby will go to prison six to eight weeks from now, unless President Bush intervenes.

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Problems With Space Station's Computers Persist

Russian engineers working with crashing computers aboard the International Space Station were not able to bring them back into full working order overnight, a NASA mission manager said this morning.

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Fox News uses video of John Conyers when talking about Jefferson indictment

Apparently Fox News Channel can't tell one African-American member of Congress from another, in this case Rep. Jefferson from Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee

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How Bush administration blunders destroyed the budding pro-American alliance in Europe

Farewell, New Europe

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What's next for Kurdistan?

A question every American politician needs to address.

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Rethinking Israel's David-and-Goliath past

Little-noticed details in declassified U.S. documents indicate that Israel's Six-Day War may not have been a war of necessity.

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