JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 18, 2014 The sacking of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, is public acknowledgement that the strategy for ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad has not only failed, but spawned a new generation of skilled Islamic terrorists. The departure
A cosmic finding: astronomers have discovered Kepler-186f, which NASA calls “the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone … (it) confirms that Earth-size planets exist in the habitable zones of other stars and signals a significant
Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez died today, age 87, in Mexico City. Born and raised in Aracataca, Colombia, he set out to become a lawyer, veered into journalism, and went on to become one of the world’s most prolific creators of literary
Sixty years after the United States Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” schools, Nikole Hannah-Jones of journalism organization ProPublica went to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to investigate the resegregation of Southern schools. Her series begins today, April 17. Segregation Now: 60 Years
International affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe writes today on the crisis looming over Hong Kong, and the fraught relationship between its citizens and Beijing. An excerpt: A crisis is fast approaching in the relations between Beijing and the people of Hong Kong, a
JONATHAN MANTHORPEApril 16, 2014 A crisis is fast approaching in the relations between Beijing and the people of Hong Kong, a relationship which has been on a downhill slide since the territory was returned to China in 1997. Within the next few
A full eclipse of the moon will occur overnight, visible in the Western hemisphere for three hours from late Monday April 14 (in western time zones) and early Tuesday April 15 (in the east). The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Guardian and the Washington Post newspapers were the big winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes for public service journalism Monday, for their reporting on spying by American security agencies. Pulizter announced the two news organizations shared the prize for Public Service:
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has launched a campaign to persuade people to divest themselves of holdings in the fossil fuel industry and, specifically, to stop construction of the Keystone pipeline from Canada’s oil sands through the United States to the Gulf of
Jesse Winchester died today at his home in Virginia, age 69. He had reportedly been suffering from cancer. He is best known as a singer-songwriter from the United States but — like many Canadians — I think of him as a Draft
