Government

It’s unlikely you are feeling charitable today, especially since taxes are due soon. 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax—and with it, the complex and contentious relationship between...

Sunday in India, 36 people were trampled to death boarding a train to the Kumbh Mela festival. The holiday, which occurs only once every dozen years, draws over 80 million pilgrims. We typically think of...

In a poorly-lit room, a half naked man is being stuffed into a small plywood box.  The interrogator, a disheveled PhD student, barks, “You lie to me, I hurt you.” So begins the film Zero Dark Thirty,...