Archive for August, 2014

The former minister for religious affairs is the only man in the history of the country to have had the dubious honor of literally giving away babies on his hit Eid transmission show, Amaan Ramzan. Claiming the prefix of Dr., his degrees were never recognized by the University of Karachi, a fact further backed by […]

He dresses in black, doesn’t flirt, speaks with a Scottish accent, and is, well, a bit of a jerk. Peter Capaldi’s incarnation of Doctor Who is the darkest yet. Warning: spoilers.It’s time to ditch the woolly scarves, bow ties, and comic sexual tension,

While the state of Pakistan is locked in an existential battle with terrorists, the attention of the country is focused on a proposed law namely the Pakistan Protection Ordinance, 2013, which has become a hotly debated topic in the electronic media. The promulgation of this law, which has been bulldozed through and passed by the […]

Toledo, Ohio, just spent three days without water. It’s unlikely anyone in the town noticed. The city where I was born and raised, Toledo, Ohio, just suffered a three-day water crisis. Five hundred thousand people couldn’t drink the water because an algae bloom in Lake Erie produced a toxin called microcystin. The toxin is so […]

The former British prime minister and partner of George W. Bush says 70 years is enough time depending on Washington. Tony Blair has called for Europe to pull itself together and stop begging the United States for help every time something goes wrong. The former British prime minister said it was time the continent stood […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israeli actions in Gaza ‘surpassed what Hitler did to them.’ Now he’s digging in deeper in a letter sent on his behalf to his biggest boosters in Congress. Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has some advice for his strongest supporters in the U.S. Congress: If you don’t like the rise […]

In his new book, ‘The Nixon Defense,’ White House counsel John Dean brings his inside knowledge of the Nixon administration to the story of Watergate. He talks about combing through four million words of Nixon’s transcripts, and how it changed his view of America’s most infamous president. John Dean is uniquely suited to write the definitive history […]

Republicans and Democrats love bashing lobbyists on the stump. But behind closed doors, corporate influence peddlers are more powerful than ever. At some point in the early part of this century, America was treated to the concept of Bush Derangement Syndrome. The illness, Charles Krauthammerexplained, entailed “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people […]

Off the coast of Japan stands a crumbling, post-apocalyptic abandoned island that once held a bustling mining community. Now, it just harbors platinum-blond Bond villains.