When this hinge-point in human history is remembered, there will be far more sympathy for the people who took to the streets and rioted than for the people who stayed silently in their homes.
Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out.
Tony Blair's decade in power is seared with disappointments, but there is one cool, consistent success-story that ran through his time in power: the rapid advance of gay rights.
The world is not divided into a Block of Light, and a Block of Darkness; you don't have to pick a tribe and defend its every action. Say it slowly: there can be more than one bad thing in the world.
Two brothers -- aged ten and eleven -- have been charged with torturing two other, younger kids. Children who kill are a question of mental health, not morality. They are internally destroyed children, not devils.
At the end of the failed age of market fundamentalism, the long-suppressed democratic cry for equality is emerging once again.
Show me what scares you, and I will show you your subconscious leeching out into the world. Every culture - every person - imagines there are terrors ...
Ballard's novels were among the first to glimpse a basic truth: man stripped of a stable ecosystem rapidly regresses to his most primitive state.
'Geo-engineering' is a Messianic movement to save the world from global warming, through dust and iron and thousands of tiny mirrors in space. It is also the last green taboo.
To the people who shrug and say that politicians are all the same, answer with four words: torture and stem cells.
We always knew that factory farms were a scar on humanity's conscience -- but now we know they are a scar on our health.
