The Twitterverse blew up recently over a magazine cover: specifically, the cover of Port that touted “A New Golden Age” of print media over a photo of six white male magazine editors. There were a few, um, interest groups who took issue with it, and the assertion that ...

Although information is still emerging about their exact connections to Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, early reporting suggests that Boston marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be of Chechen origin and may have grown up partially in Dagestan. The regions are sometimes described as ...

In the current issue of The New Republic, Evgeny Morozov offers a critical take on Steven Johnson's Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, lamenting the “quasi-religion” of “Internet-centrism.” In his response below, Johnson says his book "actually goes out of its way to avoid ...

"Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s," says Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program says, "we've never seen an object this big get so close to Earth." The 50-meter-wide asteroid, known by the catchy moniker 2012 DA14, will approach even closer than some of our ...

Carl Richards has a post over at the New York Times' Bucks blog in which he puzzles over the enduring appeal of hedge funds, despite the fact that they have historically underperformed the S&P 500. Why, he asks, are people paying exorbitant fees to hedge-fund managers who don't ...