News / The Economist
Popular stories
-
Land of the free?
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...Liberty in America is not quite as revered as its leaders pretendNO OTHER country puts as much emphasis on ?freedom? as the United States. Patrick Henry demanded ?liberty or death?. The national anthem calls America ?the land of the free?. Great reformers from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King have urged America to live up to its ideal of ?freedom?. When a group of French Americanophiles wanted to flatter the United States, they sent the Statue of Liberty.And no other country boasts as much about its mission to give freedom to the rest of the world.
Continue » 7 days ago -
Let them eat Juche
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_i...What the world's most repulsive regime has in store for its peopleA DECADE after a famine killed 500,000-1m people in North Korea, recent news from the benighted country suggests it is once again on the brink of mass starvation. The state food distribution system seems to have broken down everywhere, including the capital, Pyongyang, which usually gets special treatment from Kim Jong Il's regime. In the absence of public distribution, North Koreans rely increasingly on informal or illegal markets for grain.
Continue » 7 days ago -
Nearer to overcoming
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=...Barack Obama's success shows that the ceiling has risen for African-Americans. But many are still too close to the floorWHEN Roland Fryer was about 15, a friend asked him what he would be doing when he was 30. He said he would probably be dead. It was a reasonable prediction. At the time, he was hanging out with a gang and selling drugs on the side. Young black men in that line of work seldom live long. But Mr Fryer survived. At 30, he won tenure as an economics professor at Harvard.
Continue » 7 days ago
86,551 blog reactions
-
American Power
Check out the Economist's take on Hillary Clinton's big win in West Virginia this week: IN LOGAN, the local high school's cheerleaders wrote a chant for Hillary Clinton's visit on May 12th: “H-I-L-L-A-R-Y, Hillary, our nominee!
17 minutes ago · Authority: 199 -
Bonjour Planet Earth
The industry sued Andersen in 2005, but dropped the case last year after failing to turn up evidence that she illegally downloaded music. Source: OregonLive.com See also: Tanya Andersen, the woman that's going after the RIAA... And this: The Game Is Up
18 minutes ago · Authority: 8 -
The unexamined life...
Beer bubbles
20 minutes ago · Authority: 17
