Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and his new book, Haunted ponders blogging and media freedom in an interview with Chris Atchison of Metro Toronto. Palahniuk said that when he sat down to write Haunted, he wondered what Edgar Allen Poe would have written if he had access to blogs and the media freedom [...]

This tale of true crime and counterfeit wars now can be told in full for the first time, stripping away the myths and illuminating the ironies of the scheme known as Operation Bernhard, which was named for the SS officer who ran it.
Only a fortnight after the start of World War II, at a meeting [...]

I’m sure you’ve all heard by now this tantalizing story from Mars that maybe — maybe — they’ve found signs the planet has water. And with that, maybe life.
I know, some are pooh-poohing it. But consider for a moment if we “did” find life — any kind of life. Imagine the implications. That in this [...]

O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.
(It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, 1849)
What if Christmas was real? Oh, I don’t mean “What if the Christmas story was true?” I mean, what if all those Christmas carols were really how people who profess to celebrate Christmas actually lived their lives and [...]

The Iranians are conducting a clandestine nuclear program in parallel to the public one, the aim of which is clearly the acquisition of nuclear weapons. The Israeli intelligence assessment speaks of three or four years; the Americans add another year or two to this timetable.
The Americans conducted a large-scale operation in Iraq in order to [...]