Feature
Treating the symptoms, not the cause
Why India’s employment quotas for people with disabilities fail to provide equal opportunities
{More »}A Michael Jackson tribute in the rain…
Over the last two weeks, the demonstrations in Iran have evolved into a cause far beyond the presidential elections. The debate over whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mir Hussein Moussavi won is progressively losing relevance. The elections, and the government’s handling of them, have stirred an underlying public dissatisfaction with the corruption and ineptness that has [...]
Before the rising star began to fall again, before the invention of the boy band, before I learned how to read, I followed in my brother’s footsteps as a Michael Jackson fan. Instead of going to our bedrooms, we would sometimes dance around in our footie pajamas to songs like “Thriller.”
“Thriller” is a product inextricably [...]
Culture
What you oughta know about Alanis Morissette and her safely rebellious lyrics
The Odyssey took place amid one chain of islands; the forty-fourth president of the United States was born on another. In this long poem, which takes place on a third chain of islands, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott examines the power of the sea to connect and divide.
Poetry by Liana Stillman
International
An un-democratic democracy
Photographs by Aditya Ajit Parwatkar
What the U.S.–and the rest of the world–has to gain by helping India.
Domestic
Why vampires are cold and zombies hot, hot, hot
The White House appears ready to move on immigration, not simply for policy reasons, or to add support among liberals and Latinos, but also to gain business support.
Some languages are just more modern than others