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Gone is the watercooler nation that signed on to the Cold War consensus, sent men to the moon and embraced Ike's ambitious interstate highway system. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty," said Abraham Lincoln at a moment of supreme peril to American democracy, "and we must rise with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Era of No Consensus | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

In 2007, I spent about five days with the medevacs operating out of Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan. There I met Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jessie Russell, a female pilot flying Black Hawks to pick up the injured. I love meeting strong, smart women doing unconventional jobs. Last April, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rescue Brigade | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Then, a breakthrough. Crime rates started falling. Apart from a few bumps and plateaus, they continued to drop through boom times and recessions, through peace and war, under Democrats and Republicans. Last year's murder rate may be the lowest since the mid-1960s, according to preliminary statistics released by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

This Valentine's Day, more of us than ever will be looking for love online. And if recent studies are any guide, relatively few women on mainstream dating sites will bother to respond to overtures from men of Asian descent. Likewise, black women will be disproportionately snubbed by men of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking My Race-Based Valentine Online | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Racial preferences - or, as some call them, biases - are easier to observe on these sites than in offline settings. Behind computer screens and cutely coded user names, people clearly communicate things about race that few would ever say aloud in a bar.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking My Race-Based Valentine Online | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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