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There's a long history of a particular pleasure in consuming the ideas of black-ghetto-excess dysfunction. It used to not be ghettoized in setting because black people weren't always urban people, but the same images can be found in American history for centuries. So this idea that a certain kind of sexual deviance or violent behavior defines black culture has had a huge market in commercial mainstream culture for at least 200 years. Also, sexist images, which hip-hop has a lot of, seem to do very well across the cultural spectrum. So sexuality and sexual domination...
...they weren't in enough hot water over their handling of the Mumbai massacre, Indian security forces have added yet another blunder to the growing list of lapses before and after last month's attacks: the arrest of Mukhtar Ahmed. Ahmed was held by the West Bengal police on Friday night for procuring mobile-phone cards for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the organization suspected of staging the Mumbai attacks. His arrest might have counted as a coup against the extremist group, except for the fact that Ahmed is reported to be an undercover intelligence operative for the Jammu and Kashmir police...
...would come to define his tenure were gathering off center stage, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson viewed the economic relationship between the U.S. and China as his biggest challenge - and his biggest opportunity. He would sit down twice a year with his Chinese counterparts and discuss big-picture issues. These weren't negotiations. They were part of a "strategic economic dialogue" - "sort of like the G2," as a former Treasury official puts it. They were a way to flatter China, the world's rising economic power, and to enlist its cooperation on big, global issues like increasing the use of renewable...
When you say "media," what exactly are you talking about? Your report mentions that the researchers weren't able to get much data on "new media...
Beinart may be right in hailing a new dawn for American liberal politics, but before he celebrates, beware that this is not just another false dawn like so many before. Weren't we almost as enthused in 1960 when Kennedy beat Nixon? Look what happened within a decade: the moon landing, but also Vietnam and Nixon. Here in the U.K., New Labor's arrival in 1997 was greeted with much the same enthusiasm as Obama's is now. A decade on, we have a government every bit as reactionary and illiberal as any Tory government from the past century; official...