Media, particularly pop culture, can help make summers feel endless. A song that tops the charts for more than four weeks. A blockbuster movie each month from May to July. One good thing
This is one of the funniest pictures of the twentieth century. An obviously drug-addled Elvis Presley (then age 35), visiting a cynically bemused Richard Nixon, shaking hands in the White House and discussing
The early 1990s are a period that profoundly changed the world and my young adult life. The Soviet Union collapsed. Americans fell in love with premium coffee and beer. Rock music got better.
Check out this interesting photo essay by Taiwanese-born photographer Chien-Chi Chang of Magnum Photos, courtesy of Slate.
The essay shows a scene from just one room in a karaoke club. But it offers
Now I'm going to totally sound like the libertarian, amateur economist and paid blogger, Megan McArdle, but this is an interesting story about how cash-strapped mobile phone users in Africa ring
