WikiLeaks Shows End of U.S. 'Democracy Agenda' in Mideast Published Dec 01, 2010 at 1:45 PM EST Updated Dec 02, 2010 at 10:13 AM EST King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Photos: Getty Images Julian Assange's data dump has helped confirm that America's democracy agenda is over. The project of liberating the Middle East from tyra
To its practitioners, politics is about power: getting it, keeping it and using it. But for the nation, the basic purpose of politics is to conciliate. If everyone agreed on everything, politics would be unnecessary. So would democracy and elections. A dictator could govern by universally accepted preferences and policies. Without consensus, politics is how we resolve our differences short of reso
Published Oct 04, 2010 at 12:00 PM EDT Updated Oct 04, 2010 at 1:17 PM EDT Over the past two weeks, all of Asia watched with alarm as China forced Japan to back down in a maritime dispute by downgrading diplomatic ties, and tolerating if not encouraging public street protest against Tokyo as well as halting shipments of critical industrial metals to Japan. The face-off symbolizes Beijing's new att
Published Sep 25, 2010 at 8:15 AM EDT Updated Sep 25, 2010 at 9:34 AM EDT East Asia may be reveling in its unprecedented economic growth, but old-fashioned territorial feuds continue to fester. The latest reminder came last week at the United Nations, with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warning darkly of the unnamed "consequences" Japan would incur unless it released the captain of a Chinese fishing b
Published Jun 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM EDT Updated Jun 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM EDT How much sleep is enough? Is how sleepy you feel a good judge of whether or not you are getting enough sleep? If you get less sleep than some ideal amount but you feel fine, could you be damaging your health anyway? Are we getting less than we used to? Recent research provides some surprising answers. Adults typically need
Published Jun 12, 2010 at 6:45 AM EDT Updated Jun 15, 2010 at 12:29 PM EDT Japan's former finance minister, Naoto Kan, has become the nation's fifth prime minister in just four years—and the predictable cycle of high expectations followed by mild cynicism has begun anew. How long he will remain in office is anyone's guess, but one thing is certain: trying to solve government finances could be for
Published Jan 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 7:27 PM EST Google's decision to defy Beijing's rules censoring the Internet could be seen as an isolated event—one company pulling out of China for a set of specific reasons. Certainly many other firms are acting that way, hoping to continue their pursuit of profits in the fastest-growing market in the world. But in fact Google's decis
Published Jan 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Apr 14, 2011 at 3:41 PM EDT What's the difference between this and the 2004 Indian Ocean quake? The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake off the coast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, was caused by a thrust fault: a tectonic plate that was sliding beneath an adjacent plate moved suddenly, forcing that second plate upward and displacing enough water to cause a tsunami
Published Jan 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM EST There is something haunting and deeply sinister about the interview that NEWSWEEK TÜRKIYE's Adem Demir did with Defne Bayrak, the wife of the "CIA bomber," last week. But she seems to have quit talking since she was picked up by the cops in Istanbul, questioned, and released—and that's really too bad, because there are a who
Published Nov 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 5:48 PM EST Since Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama took office two months ago, anxious Washingtonians have worried that Japan's new administration will wreck one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world. Things got messier after Hatoyama, who was already misunderstood as an anti-American, pursued his campaign pledge to re
Published Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated May 28, 2010 at 9:17 AM EDT Even before Yukio Hatoyama became Japan's prime minister in August, people in the country and abroad have tried to grasp his personal philosophy of yuai, an idea that translates loosely into "fraternal love" and has been ridiculed by the press and politicians alike. The conservative Sankei Shimbun newspaper worried about the
Published Sep 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Jul 01, 2010 at 1:41 PM EDT The comedian Dane Cook apparently believes he is building his brand by pumping out a steady stream of comments on Twitter, the microblogging site that lets you broadcast 140-character messages to anyone who chooses to become your "follower." Cook's followers receive a regular series of bons mots: "Just got my hair cut. When
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