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In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out of sorts, and unwilling to be interviewed. So Talese remained in L.A., hoping Sinatra might recover and…

Published on Foreign Affairs (http://www.foreignaffairs.com)Home >The New Population Bomb The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World January/February 2010Jack A. GoldstoneJACK A. GOLDSTONE is Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr., Professor at the George Mason School of Public Policy.Forty-two…

Obama is the fourth American President to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The other three got theirs either toward the end of a second term (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson) or long after leaving the White House (Jimmy Carter). They were honored for specific diplomatic achievements—negotiating the…

Apart from Austin Powers, there can be few British institutions as groovy right now as The Economist . Der Spiegel has hailed its "legendary influence." Vanity Fair has written that "the positions The Economist takes change the minds that matter." In Britain, the Sunday Telegraph has declared that…

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized—with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS—they first depleted stocks…

Human beings are peculiar in many ways.

What do drivers and cyclists need to know to share the road safely? Dr. Chris Cavacuiti of the department of family and community medicine is a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and an experienced cyclist who commutes on his bicycle and races competitively. He was recovering from a serious…

In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is a lovely little meditation on traditional Japanese aesthetics and how it differs from Western aesthetics. It was not, as I had hoped, about a mood I’ve been interested in for some time, mono no aware, my favorite translation of which is “beauty as an…

Lying about health care -- indeed, fear-mongering about health care -- has ramped up as insurance companies attempt to keep their profits. Those profits are created by a system where the U.S. spends 5 percent more of its economy on health care in exchange for the worst results of any Western nation.…