In Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (Knopf, $27) author and journalist Peter Maass embarks on an eight-year investigation into the economics and politics of oil production, surveying the true...

Ric O'Barry, former Flipper-trainer-turned-activist and subject of the documentary The Cove, departed this morning for his second visit to Japan in as many weeks. It's a frequent trip for him during the dolphin-killing season that runs from September to March in Taiji, Wakayama prefecture. The focus of this trip,...

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The cover of Rolling Stone No. 1085 (Aug. 20, 2009) depicts a somber looking President Barack Obama, his face the center of the presidential seal that reads "Will he take bold action or compromise too easily?" The cover image, created by artist Shepard Fairey, was...

Conor Clarke is* guest blogging over at the Daily Dish in Andrew Sullivan's absence. In a post last week he discussed something I've been struggling with lately: the skeletons in the closet that are inevitable when you work on the Internet. Twenty-first century skeletons, more accessible than their predecessors...

James Longley, director of Gaza Strip and Iraq in Fragments, is in Iran filming a new documentary about a junior high school in the village of Pul. You can read his previous dispatch from Tehran here.

What have been your primary means of communication both inside and...

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My flight has just taken off from Washington DC. This whirlwind trip was invigorating yet exhausting--it was my first time to the Capitol, my first TED talk, and my first time blogging from 35,000 feet. Everyone I met with yesterday gave me great ideas...

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TED goes to State tomorrow, and it would be an understatement to say that I'm excited about being there when it happens for the first time. I'm a self-proclaimed TED fan, and...

White House Adviser David Axelrod called today the "journalistic equivalent of a Hallmark holiday," which may be true, but it's still a good way to take the pulse of the new administration. It's been a momentous time for America and our new president, who has restored the faith of...

Critically acclaimed duo Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield's latest endeavor is a grand undertaking, to say the least. You likely know them as the filmmakers who brought you the BBC series Planet Earth -- the highest selling HD DVD set to date. Their next project was directing Disneynature's Earth, which...