Looking for Ukrainians to lead the separatist movement
Santa Claus and a dog whisperer among those leading the Ukrainian separatist movement
The New York Times shuts down India Ink
The Times gives up being local everywhere, returns to the parochial interests of a US audience
An unworldly article on the world’s game
The Brazilian game of futevolei is just the Asian sport of sepak takraw and not as impressive
Why we still need newspapers
How a New York Times investigation of Walmart in Mexico changed the future of retail in India
Robin Wright carves up the Middle East
Wright is wrong and her analysis risks looking prescriptive rather than descriptive
The Yugoslav war reappears in Syria
War never ends: it breeds skills that just get applied to perpetrating bad deeds later on
On Egypt’s constitutional referendum
The Muslim Brotherhood has changed its political strategy, a loss for everyone
Bal Thackeray dying in India, violence expected
Of course it is: violence is the Shiv Sena default reaction to anything they don’t like
On viewing the Tatzu Nishi Columbus Circle project
Tatzu Nishi inverts Surrealism and makes you see a public landmark as if for the first time
New York Times op-ed on Syria is wrong about the Obama doctrine
How not to make the case for US intervention in Syria
The Syrian gun market as horoscope
New York Times reporter C. J. Chivers says weapons are expensive so bad things lie ahead
I still don’t understand the Higgs boson
The discovery is the e=mc² of our day: it sounds big but few really understand it
Syria, citizen journalism and the New York Times
The paper of record embraces citizen journalism at last
The ‘unexpected’ China slowdown was entirely foreseeable
Analysts profess surprise at the China slowdown that I saw out the car window in Fujian a year ago
A.A. Gill’s magnificent defense of London
Gill — bless him — dispenses with the cheeky cockneys and pearly kings of the imaginary London
The New York Times opens up its photo morgue
The coolest thing? The backs of the prints. The most surprising? The site is on Tumblr
Unseen Robert Frank photos at the New York Times
Promoting the New York Times on the eve of Robert Frank’s landmark book, ‘The Americans’
Photographer Martin Klimas and the color of sound
Marrying Abstract Expressionism to every heavy metal kid’s discovery that speakers produce air waves
Fashion collective threeASFOUR brings peace to the Middle East
Hardly: Muslim – Jewish cultural ‘togetherness’ is the easy part
Back flips off the destroyed infrastructure in Gaza
Bringing the daredevil leaps of parkour to the bombed-out buildings of the Gaza Strip
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists
On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
Syria jumps the shark
Syrian TV says Al Jazeera is building movie sets of Syrian cities to film fake rebel victories
The New York Times launches India Ink
Its first ever country-specific blog, on all things Indian. Why I’ve waited twenty years for this