Libya intervention: US cannot afford to ‘go in search of monsters to destroy’ (The Christian Science Monitor)
New York – From Iran to Algeria and across the Middle East, a generation of young people has demanded that its voice be heard, calling for new or reformed governments.
The real March Madness: Duke, Uncle Tom, and success as a ‘white’ value (The Christian Science Monitor)
New York – A few summers ago, I took my daughter and a few of her friends to see the rapper Lil Wayne in concert. He bounded onto the stage in a blaze of blinking lights, then served up the usual menu of songs about gangsters, hustlers, and pimps. And the mostly white audience cheered
Google Books: Shelved for good? (The Week)
New York – A judge rejects Google’s settlement with authors and publishers.
March Madness: By the numbers (The Week)
New York – The annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament is down to 16 teams. Does anyone in America still have a perfect bracket
For safer nuclear power plants, leave the ’70s era behind (The Christian Science Monitor)
There’s much to not like about nuclear power. In an ideal world people wouldn’t rely on it
Haiti Abstains (The Nation)
The Nation — Despite a massive UN mobilization, Haitians stayed away from controversial presidential elections in large numbers on March 20, raising serious questions about the legitimacy of the government poised to take power. “The majority of the Haitian people did not vote in this election because the majority of people stand behind Lavalas,” said Wilnor Moise, a 29-year-old former bus conductor from Cit
The new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (The Week)
New York – A miles-long slick contaminates a stretch of beach hit hard by last year’s massive BP spill.
Japan’s radioactive tap water and 3 other new risks (The Week)
New York – Japanese officials set off warning bells in Tokyo by reporting that the city’s tap water could imperil infants.
Apple’s software guru departs: Is the tech giant going all mobile? (The Week)
New York – Bertrand Serlet, who helped rebuild Apple in the late ’90s, is leaving, and the tech world buzzes over what it means for Steve Jobs and Co. Apple announced on Wednesday that Bertrand Serlet, the software engineer instrumental in the development of Mac OS X, is leaving the company. Serlet, who said in his departure statement that he wants to “focus less on products and more on science,” has worked with Steve Jobs for 22 years, and was the driving force behind the software that helped launch the company back into prominence in 1997
Could Detroit disappear? (The Week)
New York – The population of the Motor City declined by an astonishing 25 percent in the last decade. Could it vanish altogether
