YEEZUS Kanye West (Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella) After the worldwide video projections, the (evidently short lived) high security embargo and the general “Kanye” of it all, Yeezus had a lot to live up to. So I was little disheartened- Kanye when the album opened with the overly synthy and strangely disconnected On Sight
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Questions About Marijuana: Is Pot Good For You?
I never smoked pot in junior high because I was convinced it would shrivel my incipient manhood. This was the 1980s, and those stark this-is-your-brain-on-drugs ads already had me vaguely worried about memory loss and psychosis
Physics: The Eightfold Way
The esoteric world of theoretical physics went into spasms of enthusiasm last week when Brookhaven National Laboratory announced the identification of a new elementary particle. It is not the biggest particle known or the smallest, and it lives only one ten-billionth of a second
A Cry for Leadership
Five years ago, on the eve of President Richard Nixon’s resignation, TIME published a 38-page Special Section on leadership.
Lessons Of A Bad Heart
From time to time, I have felt Dick Cheney’s pain. We are both about the same age–I am some months older–and we both had our first heart attacks in our mid-30s
Can Obama Deliver on Health Reform’s Promised Savings?
Way back in January, Barack Obama asked his health-care advisers for a simple number.
Commentary: 2010 makes Democrats nervous
Democrats are getting nervous about the way that events have been unfolding this summer.