Articles
Twitter to Take TweetDeck Web-Only, Axe Facebook Integration
We had a good run, TweetDeck. Thanks for the memories.

How France is a Microcosm for the Eurozone Crisis
The rioting that rocked the French city of Amiens Aug 13-14 was a grim reminder that little has changed since 2005, when the exclusion and alienation of France’s...

How Apple Made ‘Vertical Integration’ Hot Again — Too Hot, Maybe
Vertical integration dictates that one company controls the end product as well as its component parts. Apple has been wildly successful through vertical...
Budget Gap
Amazing first item (click on it to enlarge) on the Pentagon’s Monday contract list. First of all, you can’t figure out just what it is we’ere buying, but nothing...

Crunch Time for the Euro Zone: Is Europe Ready to Talk about Radical Integration?
Elephant, meet room. Doubt and despair returned to Europe by Tuesday despite positive reaction a day earlier to the French-German proposals to save the...
Photo Essays

LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960
Very few non-violent civil disobedience tactics of the late 1950s and early 1960s were as brilliantly simple in conception and as effective in execution as the...


