1 . We’re running out of water. We see it in the headlines almost every day: Drought in Texas and China . Nevada’s Lake Mead in danger of going dry. The Colorado River and the Rio Grande no longer flowing to the sea. Read full article > >

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Five myths about water

They are joining the Trayvon Martin crusade by the hour now. It feels like an echo from another era — when there was racial injustice in the headlines, when federal troops were dispatched to comb Southern swamps to look for blacks who had vanished. Read full article > >

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Fla. shooting stirs memories of civil rights era

They are joining the Trayvon Martin crusade by the hour now. It feels like an echo from another era — when there was racial injustice in the headlines, when federal troops were dispatched to comb Southern swamps to look for blacks who had vanished. Read full article > >

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Fla. shooting stirs memories of civil rights era

With many of the headlines this year dominated by the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, Will Self reflects on the new landscape for the media.

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Looking into the tittle-tattle business

How smart was Andy Warhol? Smarter than he looked, smarter than he claimed to be, and smart enough to remain fascinating, frustrating and even infuriating almost a quarter-century after his death. “ Warhol: Headlines ,” which opens at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, is the museum’s first major exhibition devoted to the artist. It leaves no doubt about the curator’s point of view: Warhol was no irony-soaked provocateur mindlessly importing pop pizzazz into the sanctums of high art for pure shock value. He was strategic, intelligent and brilliantly adept at analyzing and indicting the world we live in today, a world he seemed to both predict and forge through games of representation we now know by the encompassing shorthand: Warholian. Read full article > >

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Two new exhibitions show how Andy Warhol defined — and denied — his genius

In 2007, the Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti gave a triumphant New York performance in Francesco Cilea’s opera “L’Arlesiana” at Carnegie Hall. Filianoti, 33, had won fans in his Metropolitan Opera debut; this performance cemented the love. “Remember his name,” said the Associated Press. “He’s going to be a major tenor.” In 2008, Filianoti was in the headlines again — because La Scala had uninvited him from its opening night at the very last minute. In Milan, Filianoti was supposed to sing the title role of Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” a significantly heavier part for his light, lyric voice. Was the problem a mistake he made during the dress rehearsal; general backstage intrigue; or the fact that he was over-singing, taking on roles that were too big for him? Read full article > >

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Promising tenors, hitting a low note

Iwrite often about the problem of entitle ment spending. Today’s topic is the problem of entitlement behavior. Judging from the headlines, both are out of control. By entitlement behavior, I mean the apparent belief of too many political figures — make that too many male political figures — that the ordinary rules of acceptable conduct do not apply to them. Exhibits A, B and C are former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn , former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Nevada Sen. John Ensign . Read full article > >

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Bigshots behaving badly

In a week when men behaving badly dominate the headlines, a refreshing sense of cognitive dissonance has set in at the 64th Cannes Film Festival . Not only does the festival feature a record four female directors in contention for the coveted Palme d’Or — the festival’s grand prize, which will be bestowed on May 22. But some of this year’s most highly anticipated films by men, including such legendary figures as Terrence Malick, Lars von Trier and the Dardennes brothers, have shared a startling common thread in the sensitivity with which they depict archetypal feminine impulses and female characters. Read full article > >

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At Cannes, record number of women filmmakers competing for top festival prize

Images of the Africans who don’t normally make the headlines

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Middle class Africa

In a busy news week, with Japanese radiation, Libyan fighting and Gulf States’ protests dominating the headlines, new factual information delivered during hearings on Capitol Hill often gets lost in the mix.

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Keeping an eye on Afghanistan and military personnel’s fitness

Many readers of Truthout must have heard the story of Binayak Sen by now. The doctor, who has spent nearly three decades serving some of the most destitute of India’s poor, has figured in these columns before. After years of struggle against an oppressive system, he has hit the headlines again. On December 24, 2010, a lower-level court sentenced him to life imprisonment on a charge of “sedition” and “links with Maoists.” read more

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Hyped-Up Charges of Maoism Leveled Against Indian Medical Missionary

Progressive media outlets have been busy providing an end of the year retrospective on the most notable events and issues that carried the headlines in 2010. Many news services and blogs in the food- and agriculture-related areas ranked the F ood Safety Modernization Act and the Child Nutrition Act at the top of their lists. read more

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2010 Recap: Food, Agriculture, and Justice

Tablets look set to hog the headlines at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, the largest consumer electronics show in the world.

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Tablets to dominate gadget show

Some of the images that grabbed the headlines in 2010

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A year in pictures

I don’t recognise town in the headlines, writes ‘Luton girl’

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Hotbed of terror?