Sorrow and Survival — In a moving dispatch from Sendai, Hannah Beech and Krista Mahr show, in words and pictures, the human toll of Friday’s quake; Michael Schuman assesses the economic outlook; NewsFeed has the latest on the nuke situation.
Let’s Do Lunch — In the latest installment of the FT’s series, Alec Russell has a drink …
Tibetan Transition — The Dalai Lama announced today that he will relinquish his political role. TIME’s Hannah Beech explains what’s next for the leader and his people.
Libya’s Long Haul — As Gaddafi settles in, rebel forces realize they need help from overseas, writes Andrew Lee Butters in a dispatch from Benghazi; in Tripoli, …
Cheer Up, Mate —Foreign Policy responds to Fareed Zakaria’s cover story on American decline with an essay by Joseph Nye (of ‘soft power’ fame). Nye calls Zakaria’s account “gloomy” and argues that America still has lots to cheer about.
Imperial Expertise — In the National, historian Manan Ahmed argues that an army of overpaid …
She-Rebels — “Well-behaved women rarely make history,” Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of Britain’s womens suffrage movement, once said. In honor of Pankhurst — and International Women’s Day — TIME profiles 16 of history’s most wonderfully rebellious women.
France’s Far Right — A second poll has confirmed that Marine Le Pen, …
Forgotten Genocide: In the New York Times, New Delhi correspondent Lydia Polgreen reports from Bangladesh about the country’s belated efforts to investigate the massacres that led up to its independence in 1971, when over a million people (up to three million, by some estimates) may have been killed by the Pakistani army and its Bengali …
Manifestos — The Daily Beast re-reads the Green Book, a volume published by Gaddafi in 1975. An excerpt: “According to gynecologists women, unlike men, menstruate each month.”
Sorry, Kids — Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez apologizes (via YouTube) for the deaths of nine children in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. But, notes Wired, given …
Two Cities— Ian Lee tours Tripoli, a city that feels like an “oasis,” even as violence swirls around it; Andrew Lee Butters chronicles life in Benghazi, the rebel town left to rot.
Frenemies — Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman is skeptical about the U.S. military’s plan to net jihadis via social networks Facebook.
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Another Assassination: TIME’s Aryn Baker links the killing of Pakistan’s minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, to the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.
Taking Tripoli — Abigail Hauslohner visits a resistance camp in “Free Libya,” where a rag-tag group of volunteers are readying for battle; Tony Karon considers the …
