A Giant Leap Forward
Forced to go it alone into space, China has reaped the benefits of building an aerospace industry from the ground up. Now that the future of America's program looks most uncertain, China may be poised to slingshot ahead.
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Infant Intelligentsia: Can Babies Learn to Read? And Should They?
THE VIDEO CLIP on Larry Sanger’s website shows the cofounder of Wikipedia looking both scholarly and paternal with…
Save the Trees, We’ll Save Your Life
Can medical care motivate Indonesian villagers to protect the rain forest?
The Corrections
In 1896, William Randolph Hearst unleashed his pit-bull ace reporter, Ambrose Bierce, in the nation’s capital to expose the Railroad robber baron's grip on California’s Legislature. Reforms happened. The state was returned to its people. Trouble is, some of those fixes are bringing California to its knees.
The Freethinking Homeless Billionaire and the Flat-Broke State
A long list of politicians and a whole industry of fix-it professionals have failed to restore California to its former glory. Did Nicolas Berggruen—Paris-born, art collector, global investor—and his Think Long committee, know how to rebuild the Golden State? And if so, Why didn’t anyone listen?
The Governor’s Last Stand
California's Jerry Brown—now pragmatic, but still profane—is banking on a last-gasp proposal known as Proposition 30 to save the biggest economy in the nation.
Comic Con on the Couch: Analyzing Superheroes
Robin Rosenberg delves into the inner psyches of superheroes—and the people who dress like them.
Aversion to Therapy: Why Won’t Men Get Help?
Research shows that men benefit from talk therapy just as much, if not more, than women. Yet most men still won't go.
A Twist of Faiths: Claremont’s Mission to Desegregate Religion
The Claremont School of Theology, founded 126 years ago to create Methodist ministers, has plans to train rabbis and imams alongside its Christian preachers. The alliance, Claremont administrators say, will create the nation’s first Islamic seminary, awarding the country’s first graduate degrees in Muslim leadership. But the idea has agitated people inside and outside the institution.
Just Breathe: Confirming Meditation’s Benefits
Plenty of followers swear by meditation to cure a long list of ails. But how does it work? Neuroscientist Clifford Saron, of the University of California, Davis, and a Who’s Who of peers, are spending millions to find out.