World Voting, located at http://www.WorldVoting.net, is the world’s first attempt at spreading the democratic process outside of traditional national boundaries. WorldVoting.net allows anyone with an Internet connection and an opinion to participate in a poll for any heads of state (or heads of go...

Steve Connor | The Guardian It is now a truth acknowledged even by science: men like casual sex more than women do. One of the first academic studies to investigate positive and negative emotions felt after casual sex has revealed that evolution has not adapted women to having casual sex. Otherwise,...

A few weeks ago I received the news that my old coach and math teacher, Craig Newell, had died. I haven't written about it till now because I've been thinking of him since then. He was an odd man, spare and lean, with the whippet body of a greyhound, and he had a way of cocking his head when he look...

It's ironic that one of my favorite poets, Ezra Pound (whom I am reading a new biography of), was so intimately involved in the creation of so much of the modern 'art' that I dislike. He pushed harder than just about any American poet I know for the democratization of art in pre-War England, forcing...

George Friedman | April 15 Stratfor - China is an island. We do not mean it is surrounded by water; we mean China is surrounded by territory that is difficult to traverse. Therefore, China is hard to invade; given its size and population, it is even harder to occupy. This also makes it hard for the ...

Stephen Khan | April 13 Independent - When is a lesbian not a lesbian? When the person in question is a gay, Catholic, conservative blogger by the name of Andrew Sullivan, it would seem. For when Sullivan was stuck for words on an American news discussion programme last week, he was confronted by th...

Chinese paramilitary police patrol a street in Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region Thursday, March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) by Frank James Sen. Hillary Clinton wants President Bush to skip the Olympic Games' opening ceremonies in Beijing this summer to protest China's political crackdown ...

Screw a bunch of politics. This made my day. dhfjr. LA Times HOUSTON -- THERE are nights when Ryan Bingham sounds just like what he is, and there's no shame in that. He sounds like a kid. Twenty-six years old, on paper, but a kid, really, who can write a pretty song about truck stops and pawnshops b...

Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the web: By Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib The reviews are in on last night’s Democratic debate—perhaps the last of 20—and they aren’t exactly glowing. Words such as grouchy, whining and mockery keep popping up. Politico&...

The foreign policies of both Iran and Pakistan over the past half century have incorporated repeated challenges to the international system that suggest profound dissatisfaction on the parts of the ruling elites in each state going far deeper than individual personalities, parties, or ideologies. Th...