Well-to-do opponents of New York City's long-awaited Citibike program have notched several significant victories against New York's Department of Transportation over the past week — after a month-plus of delirious outrage, a small journalism scandal, and destructive vandalism.
Time on the Fukushima power plant cleanup, The Atlantic Cities on pedestrian energy, USA Today on climate change and precipitation, Politico on Obama's Keystone deliberations, and New Statesman on the climate effects of the recession.
Blake Zeff on the real Anthony Weiner, Thomas L. Friedman on mediocrity, Amy Davidson on the hunger strike at Guantanamo, Jonathan Chait on opinion journalism, and Helena Fitzgerald on teenagers' online lives.
On Tuesday afternoon the Food and Drug Administration issued a press release about the approval of Plan B One-Step, a brand-name emergency contraceptive. Here's what that means.
An enormous new billboard in South Carolina features the serial philanderer just a week ahead of his special election. But the CEO of the extramarital "dating" site tells The Atlantic Wire that a Sanford victory would be a move toward cultural acceptance of cheating — or at least would help the site buy some Super Bowl ads.
NBC on the marketing of energy-efficient light bulbs, The New York Times on burning garbage in Oslo, The Washington Post on Fisker Automotive, The American Prospect on Obama's green record, and National Geographic on solar nanotechnology.
We still don't know much about the seven people who died when a cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, but dashboard camera footage surfaced Tuesday morning — and it provides more answers than you may even feel comfortable watching.
Josh Barro on the coming out of Jason Collins, Nicholas Jackson on fighting words, Jamelle Bouie on the GOP's civil rights history, Michelle Goldberg on the politics of late-term abortion, and David Brooks on how to write about politics.
A Boeing 747 jet enroute to Dubai crashed and caught fire moments after lifting off on Monday morning from Bagram Airfield in northeast Afghanistan. Seven crew members were killed.
Nearly a decade after Richard Branson founded the space tourism wing of his Virgin empire and more than three years after he unveiled the ship that will get humans into the suborbital vacation business, SpaceShipTwo has proven itself ready for liftoff.
MSNBC on Queens after the hurricame, The Atlantic on the true impact of coal, MarketWatch on our readiness for climate change, The Guardian on the U.K.'s climate change curriculum, The Associated Press on fracking's impact on climate change
Bill Keller on erasing your Internet history, John Tamny on the "Wall Street" metonym, Jonathan Cohn on Obamacare's implementation, Amir Ahmad Nasr on the web's influence on Muslims, Rebecca Mead on the feminism of Amanda Knox.
The New York Police Department set up one of the more eerie crime scenes at that most horrific of American crime scenes on Friday afternoon: They were clearing off an area of Lower Manhattan to inspect a piece of debris that might belong to one of the two Boeing jets flow in to the World Trade Center eleven and a half years ago.
Long portrayed as technologically aloof, the end of the comeback week gives us a portrait of Bush fully in thrall to consumer technology, leveraging the iPad not to check and respond to email but to express himself in art. Yes, he learned how to paint on an app.
The New York Times on how electrical cars are making money, Grist on the fear of carbon trading, The Wall Street Journal on the North Sea's natural gas, The New York Times on fraudulent discrimination payments for farmers, and The Irish Times on the economics of shale gas in the United Kingdom.
Jamilah King on the cultural impact of stop-and-frisk, Jonathan Chait on revising George W. Bush's presidential legacy, Matt Buchanan on Twitter's problematic velocity, Alan Jacobs on the moral world of Girls, and Paul Krugman on the morality of austerity.
What will happen next to the town of West, Texas, after an explosion that decimated a fertilizer factory and killed 15?
Just like the man they carjacked last week said, the Boston Marathon suspects considered attacking a second: New York City.
The Atlantic on future sources of energy, National Geographic on energy scarcity in South Africa, The New York Times on Canada's power play in Washington, Quartz on solar power in California, and The Guardian on Reuters' climate change skepticism.
Tom McGeveran on the editorship of Jill Abramson, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on the politics of teaching children, Benjamin Todd Jealous on how Republicans can persuade black voters, Ezra Klein on the inevitable GOP embrace of Obamacare, and Noreene Malone on the word "bro."
After his much-discussed arrest on Tuesday, the charges against Adam Savader were unsealed on Wednesday afternoon, and they are disturbing reflections of a young man with access to power, turned very pushy — and very sexually aggressive — with a virtual toolbox of creepiness at his disposal.
The Hill on public opinion of fracking, The Washington Post on the economic impact of the energy boom, Energy Biz on the coming electricity crisis, BBC on the question of human extinction, and CNN on our cleaner air,
Exactly one week after GOP leaders pulled funding from his congressional run, the South Carolina Republican appeared at a bizarre event in Charleston Wednesday morning, during which he "debated" a full-color cardboard poster of the House Minority Leader.
Harold Meyerson on the Koch brothers' play for the Tribune Company, Tom Scocca on literary nepotism, Catherine Rampell on the affordability of New York City, Daniel Gross on a new online sales tax, Avik Roy on being racially profiled after a tragedy.
A guide to navigating the horrors of other people reading your college admissions essay.
Five days after he was identified and arrested for allegedly mailing ricin-laced envelopes to President Obama, Senator Roger Wicker, and Mississippi judge Sadie Holland — and one day after FBI agents failed to find any ricin-making equipment in his house — Mississippi resident Paul Kevin Curtis has been released from custody. And it gets even weirder than that.
Newsweek on the Deepwater Horizon spill, The New Republic on celebrating Earth Day, The Washington Post on Obama's environmental record, Bloomberg Businessweek on foreign investment in U.S. oil shales, and New Geography on California's would-be fracking boom.
Following a six-month campaign that revived the country's conservative movement — and inspired hundreds of colorful and often revealing counter-protests — France became the 14th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday.
Michael Chertoff and Dallas Lawrence on social media helping a manhunt, Erwin Chemerinsky on the constitutional rights of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Richard Overy on the use of the word 'Nazi,' John Villasenor on ownership and Google Glass, and William Germano on writing for readers.
Timothy P. Carney on the public use of private cameras, Paul Krugman on austerity-inspired joblessness, Michael Tomasky on GOP fear, Sarah Kendzior on profiling the Boston bombers, and E.J. Dionne, Jr. on the path forward for gun control.
The New York Times on Europe's pollution permits, Scientific American on the rise of car ownership, NBC News on how Earth Day's founder constructs a building, Politico on fracking in California, and The New Yorker on China's response to earthquakes.
Two days after a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught fire and exploded, 60 people remain unaccounted for in the town of 2,807 as of Friday night.
D.B. Grady on the high-definition coverage of the Boston bombers, Joan Walsh on Ruslan Tsarni's televised outburst, Jack Shafer on the New York Post's irresponsible bombing coverage, John Kass on the information gathering of the Boston bombings, and Joan Wickersham on the words of trauma.
As soon as Boston Police revealed the identities of the two Boston bombers — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 — an intense focus shifted to the two brothers' geographical origin: the war-torn Chechen Republic, a constituent entity of Russia. Here's what you need to know.
At 5:41 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the 162-year-old news agency accidentally published a prewritten obituary for Soros, complete with dummy text for the place and time of his future death. And it was pretty harsh!
Since being launched into space in March 2009, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been searching the Milky Way for planets that might sustain liquid water. Witness its latest discovery.
For the the past four days, the insulated world of economics has been thoroughly captivated by an otherwise stuffy-sounding 26-page paper titled "Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A Critique of Reinhart and Rogoff." Here's why.
The latest in a series of dangerous sounding deliveries to the Beltway arrived in Arlington, Virginia, where a military facility was evacuated late Thursday morning after personnel discovered an envelope containing white powder, according to the Navy.
Gabrielle Giffords on the Senate's rejection of background checks, Michael Moynihan on media coverage of the Boston bombings, Atul Gawande on how Boston hospitals saved lives, Heidi Moore on the toppled heroes of economics, and Ayesha Siddiqi on the cultural importance of Spring Breakers.
David Sirota on the Boston bomber, Charles C.W. Cooke on the children of Newtown, Judith Grossman on the unintended effects of Title IX, Carl M. Cannon on covering the Gosnell trial, and Jonathan Chait on the inaccuracies of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
Even as the Boston Marathon investigation was in its early stages, a combination of media reports and forensics expertise combine to give us a rough picture of what everyone wants to know besides how everyone's doing and who did this: How did the bombs go off?
Nicholas Thompson on what a marathon attack means, John Tlumacki on photographing horror, Patton Oswalt on how tragedy renews our shared humanity, David Weigel on the futility of conspiracy theories, and Whitney Erin Boesel on Vine's role in replaying news.
In the chaos following a pair of explosions in Boston, a wild report suddenly appeared: another, possibly related explosion had gone off at the John F. Kennedy Library. But the "explosion" later turned out to be an unrelated mechanical fire. So how did word of a third explosion spread?
The man who reportedly taped a private meeting between campaign aides for Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell — and then passed the recording off to Mother Jones — is looking for your help.
An undercover BBC journalist surreptitiously entered North Korea with group of students attending the London School of Economics. Was he right to do so?
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel on the hunger strike at Gitmo, Jason Farago on New York's housing market, James O'Keefe on taping politicians, Jillian Keenan on abuse in polygamist communities, and Heather Mac Donald on stop-and-frisk.
Cohen explained to multiple outlets that calling the singer-activist Cyndi Lauper "hot" on Twitter and then deleting the tweet, was part of an elaborate ploy to prank the political media, thereby drawing attention to their taste for scandal.
Seth Mandel on the trial of Kermit Gosnell, Alex Seitz-Wald on Mitch McConnell, Kevin Roose on abandoing Bitcoin, Matt Latimer on Thatcher's compromises, Om Malik on Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform.
The World Meteorological Organization announced the retirement after deciding that the name was, well, "inappropriate."
Kirsten Powers on media coverage of an abortion trial, Fareed Zakaria on the lessons of Thatcherism, Drew Magary on Mike Rice's abuses, Charles M. Blow on Rand Paul's Howard visit, and Tom Doran on Michelle Malkin's Twitter aggregator.
Like any other discovery involving ancient dinosaurs, Wednesday's announcement presents a very important question: What does this have to do with re-making Jurassic Park, and more than just in 3-D? The authors of a new study published in Nature aren't too optimistic.
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