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.
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
Have scientists cracked the speed at which the universe is expanding? (The Week)
New York – Yes — and you’ll be pleased to know the magic figure is 73.8 km/sec/megaparsec. So…
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
It really is about regime change in Libya (The Week)
New York – Ignore the president’s hysterical critics. Obama’s aim is to topple Gadhafi — and he knows the stakes are high The commentary on the president’s course in Libya has been instinctively adversarial. Much of the press may be compensating for its cheerleading or supine acquiescence in the fraud of the Iraq War.
Google Books: Shelved for good? (The Week)
New York – A judge rejects Google’s settlement with authors and publishers.
Newt Gingrich’s Libya ‘flip-flop’: What was he thinking? (The Week)
New York – Gingrich hammered President Obama earlier this month for not intervening in Libya. Now he’s griping, “I would not have intervened.” Huh? Former House speaker and current GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich has done a “complete flip-flop” on his Libya position, says George Zornick at ThinkProgress
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 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
Evangelical shift on gays: Why ‘clobber scriptures’ are losing ground (The Christian Science Monitor)
Atlanta – In 1987, Jim Bakker’s sex scandal shocked the evangelical world. The husband of mascara-laden Tammy Faye was a super-televangelist with an average viewership numbering over 12 million and ministry contributions estimated at $1 million per week.
