For most entrepreneurs, running a Web site that is rife with pornography and frequently criticized as a menace to society would not be considered a résumé booster. Many venture capitalists would head in the opposite direction. But Christopher Poole, the 23-year-old founder of 4chan, one of the ...

Leo con algún que otro escalofrío que la líder de extrema derecha Marine Le Pen aventaja a los demás candidatos a las presidenciales francesas de 2012. No dejan de ser insólitos, a la vez que sorprendentes, la reaparición y el crecimiento de movimientos fascistas y ultraderechistas en Europa...

We’re an overconfident species. Ninety-four percent of college professors believe they have above-average teaching skills. A survey of high school students found that 70 percent of them have above-average leadership skills and only 2 percent are below average. Men tend to be especially blessed with...

NOT long ago, clocks were thought to be dangerous. Folklore had it that two of them ticking in the same room could bring “sure death.” It’s easy to see how this belief arose. The clocks were almost certain to disagree, and in the space between two chimings of one hour, uncertainty crept in;...

El presidente Felipe Calderón no supo qué hacer con su día en Washington. Se perdió en venganzas personales y generalidades en lugar de cuestionar las rutas de suministro de armas a los cárteles. Washington está habituada al poder y quien quiera influirla deberá llegar con un relato claro y bien...

It’s been nearly nine weeks since that tragic shooting in Tucson, and you may be wondering whether there’s been any gun legislation proposed in the aftermath. Well, in Florida, a state representative has introduced a bill that would impose fines of up to $5 million on any doctor who asks a patient...

A young woman who received death threats after recently becoming police chief of a violence-plagued Mexican town is in the U.S and seeking asylum, Mexican and U.S. officials said Tuesday. Marisol Valles Garcia, who was 20 when she was hired last October, made international headlines when she accepted...

NO matter where you sit in Mision 19, it’s impossible to forget where you are. The restaurant, perched on the second floor of a sleek office building, is a handsome study in concrete, wood and glass, wrapped in floor-to-ceiling windows. Tijuana confronts you from all sides. “I am proud of being...

When the documentary “Presumed Guilty” opened in theaters here, many Mexicans saw for the first time the inside of one of their own courtrooms – and they watched the brutal, terrible grinding of the wheels of justice in stunned silence. And now, the story gets even stranger: The...

Over the course of my career, I’ve covered a number of policy failures. When the Soviet Union fell, we sent in teams of economists, oblivious to the lack of social trust that marred that society. While invading Iraq, the nation’s leaders were unprepared for the cultural complexities of the place...