When China rules the world
From 2009: The dire consequences of the coming shift in global power
The Vault
Why it’s so hard to fire bad teachers
From 2009: Most principals would rather hide or transfer incompetent teachers than try to oust them
The problem of positive thinking
Self-affirming statements actually make some people feel worse
Why tall people are smarter, healthier, richer and more attractive—and why we always vote for them
Arianne Cohen wrote the definitive guide to the tall experience
Did you hear the one about Obama?
From 2009: When Barack Obama first became presidents, TV comics gave him an easy ride.
Stop the question period madness
In 2009, Paul Wells put forward plenty of ways to fix QP and help the country
When Khrushchev came to America
Nikita Khrushchev’s 1959 visit was a Cold War comic interlude
’I pay the rent, what do you do?’
On Post-Its, bills, empty toilet paper rolls: notes to and from the roommates from hell
Fresh from the press
From 2009: What you don’t know about so-called ’pure’ orange juice
‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry’
A murderer, his victim’s daughter, and an unlikely bond