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A look around the world at this present juncture suggests an emerging consensus: We the people, through our own internal deliberations and our own political processes, should decide the fate of our own nation-states. Recent or ongoing examples in Hungary, France, Ukraine and Israel are all instructive. For political actors paying attention here on the American home front, there are clear and compelling lessons to take away. In Hungary last Sunday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had been facing relatively tight polling in the lead-up to the national election, cruised to a fourth term....

STONE: You’ve said the VC industry is driven by greed and fear. Where are we now? KHOSLA: The capital-allocation system in this country is driven by those two emotions. It’s a little bit like democracy. There’s lots of things wrong with it, but there isn’t a better system. When the investment area becomes attractive, everybody rushes to it. So you get overinvestment. And then you get missed expectations and lower rates of return, and everybody gets out....

Photographer Lynn Johnson spent nearly four years documenting the work of the burn center at West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, which admitted nearly 400 people in 1991, some for as long as nine months. She found the plight of the children particularly moving. “They must learn a whole new way to look at themselves,” says the center’s director, Dr. Harvey Slater. “There’s no way to tell them it’s OK, or that no one will notice that their ears are burned off....

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was given a timely reminder of Japan’s vulnerability to natural disasters this week as heavy rains battered the west of the country, leaving more than 200 people dead. “I was here as the floods impacted,” IOC vice president John Coates told reporters on the final day of a three-day visit. “We expressed our sorrow and condolences to those affected. I certainly hope there are no such natural disasters during Games – but I am mindful we have to prepare for extreme heat here....

As important as the DOM is, many people don’t understand it. In fact, you can program websites for years without learning much about it. But as front-end technology advances, understanding the DOM is becoming more important. Understanding the DOM Contract In object-oriented programming, there is a construct called an interface. An interface doesn’t do anything on its own. Instead, it creates a contract. It says that anything can interact with anything else, as long as it follows the rules of the interface contract....

But behind the curtain, Bush thinks a lot of us are snarky, East Coast elites teeming with cynicism. On Tuesday, en route to St. Louis, the president summoned the press pool-the small group of reporters selected to represent the larger horde each day-to the front of Air Force One. He wanted to make a statement on Robert Philip Hanssen, the FBI agent suspected of spying. After he finished reading his remarks from notecards, the reporters tried to ask Bush for more information....

When most people picture the default horror story, being chased is probably central to that image. Horror stories often have to walk a fine line between making their antagonists threatening, while still leaving some explanation as to why the hero is still alive. A being whose defining trait is their ability to take any punishment and keep coming is a perfect way to keep the stakes high 24/7. RELATED: The “Our Zombies Are Different” Trope, Explained...

Even so, it’s quite possible that Robinson is roundly underappreciated by those who know him only for breaking baseball’s color barrier. In truth, Robinson was a powerful civil rights advocate who spoke his mind both during and after his playing career, sometimes risking his safety to do so. “People just forget that Jackie Robinson was a radical,” says Peter Dreier, a professor of politics at Occidental College and an author who has written extensively both about America’s history of social justice and its national pastime....

Bennett’s son and manager, Danny Bennett, 40, says his father is “going where no man has gone before.” Danny means no 67-year-old man-although off in the distance you can hear the hoofbeats of 62-year-old Johnny Cash. In less than a year, Bennett and Cash have somehow or other become alternative-rock stars. Bennett frolicked onstage with the hyperactive Red Hot Chili Peppers at last September’s MTV Video Music Awards (the singer says he likes bassist Flea, though the Pepper has been known to perform wearing only a strategically placed sock)....

Here is a taste of some of the traditional dishes from The Kitchen without Borders by The Eat Offbeat Chefs. Kowa Varrai Sri Lanka (Curry leaves) This side dish features coconut—Sri Lanka’s “tree of life”—and fresh curry leaves. Together, these ingredients give the cabbage bold flavor, with the coconut adding sweetness and the curry leaves balancing it out with their herbal, citrusy taste. Hallacas Venezuela (Achiote) These banana leaf tamales stuffed with pork and beef are full of Venezuelan flavors....

Across the country, 15,000 of these casinos-in-disguise have sprung up in recent years, even in small shops in remote towns. By claiming to be PC-game arcades, and in some cases paying off the right officials, they can obtain legitimate business licenses. These enterprises now hold as many as 1 million game machines that work essentially as slot machines: they take cash, and return jackpots in the form of gift certificates....

Cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin, has been making headlines lately as its value has skyrocketed over the past year. As of the time of this writing, one Bitcoin is worth nearly $10,000, and so the prospect of obtaining one can be rather tantalizing. Well, gamers will have a chance to win one Bitcoin for themselves if they are the first to beat the new puzzle game Montecrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma. Montecrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma will be available on February 20, exclusively on PC through Steam....

The first part of “Phantoms” actually showed some promise because Iris West was actually front and center. She has been noticeably absent for most of Season 8, appearing here and there but usually fading into the background of an episode rather quickly. However, anyone who was getting excited that the focus on Iris meant that this episode was going to bring back the glory days of The Flash were likely disappointed....

The Portugal midfielder was heavily linked with West Ham during the transfer window, and Sporting reportedly rejected a bid worth an initial €30million with a further €10million of performance-related variables. Sullivan said on Friday that West Ham had a club-record bid for Carvalho rejected, only for them to accept it on deadline day, but with too little time left for West Ham to complete the deal. But that suggestion has been emphatically rejected by Saraiva, who wrote in a statement on his Facebook page: “David Sullivan lies....

The 18-year-old England youth international took the decision to leave Manchester City for Borussia Dortmund in 2017 and with the No.7 shirt on his back he has been showing why he has been tipped to go all the way to the top. Yet so far this season it is another former City prospect making the headlines in Germany. Javairo Dilrosun already has two goals to his name and nobody in the Bundesilga has more than his three assists....

The Game Awards are marked on a lot of calendars. Whether they’re looking for reveals and trailers for new titles, or simply want to see whether their favorite game of the year gets the attention it deserves, plenty of fans will tune in on December 8 to see what The Game Awards has to offer. This year, there are over 30 categories, each trying to crown the best of a given genre, such as RPGs....

April 2013 kicks off with Syfy show tie in and persistent MMO Defiance for Windows, PS3 and Xbox 360; and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge for PS3 and Xbox 360. The following week, a classic RTS epic comes to Steam, albeit for Windows only: Age of Empires II: HD Edition. On April 14th, Star Wars: The Old Republic sees its first expansion released, titled Rise of the Hutt Cartel, available for Windows....

If we weren’t so transfixed by the Persian Gulf, we’d be watching the Soviet crackup with immense anxiety. No one knows what will happen. The possibilities stretch from more human hardship (a certainty) to an authoritarian dictatorship (a possibility) to civil war (a legitimate fear) to–somehow–a loss of control over nuclear weapons (a plausible nightmare). Food shortages and futile political debates barely convey the depth of the crisis. Imagine our turmoil if we suddenly abandoned democracy, lost faith in free enterprise and faced the secession of major states (say, California and Texas)....