Sreenath Sreenivasan, a Columbia j-school prof, has a page for a seminar he teaches called Figuring Out Blogs and Whatever's Next. Check it out.

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Would an attack on Iran be legal?

Paul Reynolds examines the grounds required for one state attacking another.

Former Iran captive counsels caution

Richard Morefield tells his fellow Americans to look beyond the images of Iran that might have been formed in their minds when he was one of 52 people taken captive in 1979.

Steve Vaught, a morbidly obese California man who decided to walk across America to figure out a few things and lose some weight, arrived in New York City about 45 kilograms lighter and a lot wiser about himself.

This NYT story looks at the bleeding edge of bartending.

Planning on making a killing in the real estate market? For some U.S. homeowners, that train has left the station, and many are finding they aren't making the big bucks they'd planned on.

To which I would add: Boo-hoo. :)

The bad news is only 31 per cent of respondents to the NYT/CBS News poll approve of the job Dubya is doing. But that's not bad, considering only 13 per cent approve of how he's ...   more »

Former NYT foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer talks to Democracy Now! about his new book Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.