Gaza’s Other War
Israel and Gaza have been torn apart by missile strikes this week, but Gaza's rapidly depleting aquifer is about to make things even more precarious.
Update: Many Malaria Meds Still Fake, and Now the Real Ones Are Iffy Too
Over the summer we we reported the curious story behind a National Institutes of Health study, which had…
Europe Is On Strike — Like Postwar America
It’s been awhile Four European countries — Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal — held coordinated general strikes today,…
Great, Russia’s Crops Just Failed
While everyone else was worrying about hurricanes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization quietly published its own…
More Voted Abroad Than Voted in New Hampshire. Or Montana. Or DC. Together.
Tblisi From A Home in Tblisi, by Paul Rimple, part of a series of international dispatches on election…
Election Results From the Rest of the World
The U.S. isn't the only country experiencing election fever right now.
Alarming post-Sandy Factoid: The National Flood Insurance Program is Still Broke
If you ever want to have a really strange conversation with a politician, ask about floods. Rising water…
Today in Mushy Statistics: The World Prosperity Rankings Are Out
The creepily-named Legatum Institute (“legatum” means this) has released its annual ranking of world prosperity, and the US…
Rocking the Subcontinent
Zither what? Metallica meets Mumbai. From “Bombay Death City,” writer Michael Edison Hayden’s dissection of the unlikely world…
Scandinavians to Experiment with Internet Meme-Based Political System
Via Singularity Hub: 49,999 signatures to go. The ever-experimental and entertaining Finns are about to consider the first…