Darfur

From The Room: Facebook: Me, Me, Me the Whole Time

July 11, 2008 - I'm aware of the self-harm in asking this question in a blog, but how did we waste time before the Internet? In developing countries and under oppressive regimes, of course, they seem to use the Internet as positive tool, to gain important information, to organize dissent and work...

From The Room: The Hell with the Victims in Burma and Other Sentiments that Would Make Us Happier

May 8, 2008 - A new NYU study shows that conservatives are happier than liberals, the explanation being that conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Irrespective of marita...

From The Room: What's News Today

March 2, 2008 - An extra-long, white station wagon was pulling away from Saint Ambroeus, the fanciest of our Greenwich Village cafes, and people were staring in, unable to see inside because the windows had been darkened, giving it an ominous cast. Given the scene, I would have guessed it was Vladimir Putin...

From The Room: Batman Takes on the U.N.

February 1, 2008 - After being blown up in Syriana for playing a CIA agent who tries to foil a terrorist missile sale in Lebanon, George Clooney has accepted the role as the new United Nations Messenger of Peace to Darfur...

From The Room: French Resistance

November 14, 2007 - After years of investing pennies a day in charities designed to help the children, we are reaping what we've sown. After years of educating these children, they've grown up, and just like our own bastard children, they've decided...