What the World Makes of Rick Perry
The international media is talking about his religion, his jobs record, his controversies
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A conversation with New York, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis about how she consumes information.
The international media is talking about his religion, his jobs record, his controversies
This scholar fantasizes about how we'd cry, hug, and try to execute people with hoodies
Europe's worried, China's lecturing, and the Arab world? It's busy
The superpower status of the United States is at risk, say editorials
The refrain from European papers: screw this up and the whole world suffers
This, apparently, is consolation to disappointed Brazilian fans
A practical comment on the new trachea transplant
Foreign audiences are captivated by our captivation
Or a lesson in how gaffes can be global
A reader posits that most poets probably don't read poetry, either
Your kids are irritating? 'Easier to say you're giving up tea for heroin,' says reviewer
A reader offers some best wishes we all share
Should prominent illegals get a pass while less famous people get screwed?
A commenter points out that no house is built without damages
A commenter would like to revisit Nixon, please
So it's okay to make fun of people if they're not fit?
The novelist shares her favorite sites and her hilarious method to avoid procrastination
Bemusement, amusement, and head-shaking over "Anglo-Saxon" Palin obsession
As DSK heads to trial, the French media run explainers--and takedowns
If you ever wanted to see a German explain a wiener joke, now's your chance
A commenter hits the nail on the head
Well, you tell us: have you ever seen a Smurf carrying currency?
An erudite limerick to round out the day
The photo in question is given a very thorough analysis
Swedish and Japanese media merely note the event; Germans find it vulgar
A roundup of reactions from President Obama's target audience
The ever-feisty editor emeritus of The New Republic talks with us from Tel Aviv
Reuters is reporting that they have crossed into neighboring Tunisia
The American media are sticking to their standard no-release policy
A commenter evaluates the Strauss-Kahn conspiracy theories
Today's headlines are all about details of his imprisonment
There's plenty of misogyny in a quick scan of the European coverage of the case
Strauss-Kahn was the socialist party's big chance
It's sort of like how only the bourgeois worry about being bourgeois
If Gingrich's candidacy is mostly a curiosity to Americans, what can foreigners think?
This solar plane makes its first international flight today, and there's live video!
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is published in the land of steak frites
Global voyeurism sparked by an American phenomenon: the power couple
A harrowing Guardian report is being denied by European military officials
A commenter explains why Al Qaeda confirming Bin Laden's death makes perfect sense
No major U.S. paper marked the star's half-century, but Germans sure did
Pakistan's credibility is on the line. The plan? Undermine U.S. credibility
And it's all the more iconic because we haven't seen bin Laden's corpse
A quick glance at what the major news outlets are leading with today
Worldwide, the "harsh interrogation" debate is being revisited
The recent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks about her media consumption habits
The French are inflamed with liberal zeal, a Spanish op-ed brings up Melville, and more
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