Basques Capture Mothers Cup

Meet the Perfect Moms Who Have Your Back-But Aren’t Overbearing

by Jordan Wallens

As you may be aware, the past year has seen much hand-wringing, tongue-wagging, and tsk-tsking around the Spartan, draconian (and enviably effective) child-rearing techniques of the Chinese “Tiger Mom.” Courtesy (or alleged lack thereof) über-parent Amy Chua’s controversial Battle Hymn.

As you may be further aware, ever since the Tigeurre’s emergence, we have witnessed a secondary drumbeat of cultural rebuttals, each and all attesting to the modular superiority of suddenly competing nationalities of motherdom. French moms, Italian ones, Guatemalans even, and others, have each made their regimental case, …

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Decline in Style

If Your Best Days Are in the Past, America, You Have Much to Learn From Argentina

by Gabriel Saez

Tony Soprano: It’s good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that, I know. But lately I’m getting the feeling that I …

Ah-nold’s Love Boat

In the Governator's Hometown, the Romance Endures

by Werner Kopacka

“What a great day it has been!” he said with a broad smile, when he stepped into the car that would take him back to the airport of …

You Don’t Scare Us, Terrorists

How Norway Kept Calm and Carried On

When I boarded the plane in Stockholm to fly to Oslo recently, no one asked me to show my ID. This stunned me–all the more so when I noticed the …

Slow Rail Movement

America's Trains are a Link to Past; Europe's Connect to Future

by Bruno Kaufmann

Back in the 1980s, cruising the European continent onboard a night express was something of a nightmare with bad food and uncomfortable accommodations. Unfriendly border guards disturbed travelers …

Online Modesty

Uncle Sam's Internet Freedom Falls Short

by Omid Memarian

The Obama administration has begun taking action to bring Internet freedom to Iran. This sounds wonderful.

But this approach ignores two key factors: 1) Iran already has the upper …