In Egypt right now, it is practically Bush vs Gore
A Mohamed Morsy and Ahmed Shafiq runoff would crush those who believed in the revolution
An ex-Googler pokes China in the eye
An insider explains why tech companies can’t win in China and what it costs them to try
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
Art = money, surprise!
The Barnes Foundation and a Gerhard Richter show make an old point about art and money in a new way
On Egypt’s first (sort of) free and fair presidential election
For the first time ever in Egypt, no one knows in advance who will win the presidency
Horst Faas: the man who shot the Vietnam War
Many of the photos we know from the Vietnam War are due to Horst Faas, even ones he didn’t shoot
A few moments in the life of Hugo Chávez
A Venezuelan revolutionary to some, a dictator to others, but always colorful
What will France do about the Far Right?
Ignore Marine Le Pen. The French were just fed up with Sarkozy, not mainstream right policies
What I saw at the (Occupy May Day) revolution today
The point of today’s large rally: “Memo to the 1%, this is so not over”
What did Nixon really know about Watergate?
Ron Rosenbaum points out Nixon ran the cover up but we still don’t know if he ordered the burglary
A.A. Gill’s magnificent defense of London
Gill — bless him — dispenses with the cheeky cockneys and pearly kings of the imaginary London
Football on the anniversary of the Guernica bombing
The Basques cheer Real Madrid’s defeat by Bayern Munich, but it was the Germans who bombed Guernica
Does this man look like a French President?
François Hollande seems inadequate to the challenge ahead but Sarkozy proved an unserious President
Graffiti history written on your sneakers
A new store on Lafayette in New York brings back 1970s graffiti artists for custom work
Kony2012, the final indignity
What if you throw a party for one hundred million people and no one comes?
Vietnam Chante revolutionary songs, Paris, France, c1967
Employing everything from martial chants to opera in support of revolution in Vietnam
Rediscovering the joys of web surfing
MapCrunch randomly pulls street scenes from Google Maps. Most of it is ugly, yet irresistible
Good coffee arrives in Paris at last
Parisians will one day have the heated partisan debates about coffee they now have about macarons
Photographing Cusco and the Sacred Valley in Peru
From Machu Picchu to the salt ponds of Salineras and the procession of the Virgen del Rosario
And the winner of the greasiest palm is…
An anti-bribery website in India actually tries to answer that question
The new Le Monde d’Hermès looks at Inca stonemasonry
The Inca were an exceptionally advanced civilization yet, technologically, still in the Bronze Age
Mad Men is populated by Richard Nixon’s silent majority
When it comes to race, has Mad Men left the biggest lie until last?
Al Jazeera goes undercover in Syria
Al Jazeera has become the essential media; even US networks that demonize it rely on its video feed
What Steve Jobs saw in 1985
The most compelling reason to buy a home computer 27 years ago? The internet.