Nick Summers

Is this the end of organized labor as we know it?

I have simple needs. I like cold drinks, hot pizza and difficult things explained to me like I'm a drooling half-wit. Just because I'm familiar with a technology doesn't mean I get it—a distinction addressed by CommonCraft.com, whose In Plain English series of videos takes complicated, tech-forward topics, such as wikis, CFL bulbs and phishing, and explains how they work using disarmingly crummy paper-cutout animations.

It's just before lunchtime in the sunny, high-tech headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, and Simon Axten is cuing up some porn. A photo of a young couple sloppily making out pops onscreen.

In an effort to go global, conference organizers are crowd-sourcing translations of their renowned 18-minute lectures.

To make Facebook advertiser-friendly, its 'porn cops' delete risqué content and enforce decorum.

Living off a dollar menu may save you money now, but you'll pay for it in the long run.

Twenty-five years after its release, 'Ghostbusters' makes a comeback. Dan Aykroyd explains.

Is now a good time to start a company? Absolutely, says Lynda Resnick, the founder of Fiji Water and POM Wonderful.

Can entrepreneurs and innovation survive without venture capital?

Why one Chicago sheriff is defying the courts and refusing to perform evictions.

Mozilla's Firefox gave Microsoft a run for its money. What's next?

Under Mayor Bloomberg, New York City is embracing a controversial theory: closing down streets can reduce traffic jams.

According to author Jeff Jarvis, taking a page out of the company's playbook could put the economy back on track.

If you can feel the excitement as the International Olympic Committee nears a July vote on the site of the 2014 Winter Games--well, you have a delicate enough touch to win gold in curling.

Pundits, donors, opponents red and blue--everyone's getting ready for a Barack Obama presidential bid. But one group is still unprepared: the nation's comedians, who say the pol appears almost invulnerable to caricature.

In the Greater Nashua (N.H.) Men's Evangelical Softball League, it doesn't matter if a base runner is safe—so much as if he's saved. Church leagues have always made up a big part of American softball; the Amateur Softball Association counts 4,200 such teams nationwide, or more than 5 percent of the total.

The widow of LBJ died at age 94 on Wednesday.

British rocker and erstwhile Kate Moss squeeze Pete Doherty has been arrested at least 20 times on drug charges. So how come he's still a free man? An American view of the British legal system.

Recovering alcoholics say a Washington, D.C., group has hijacked the 12-step program's name.

If you can feel the excitement as the International Olympic Committee nears a July vote on the site of the 2014 Winter Games--well, you have a delicate enough touch to win gold in curling.

The Kentucky Derby Winner Is Gone, But His Impact On Veterinary Medicine Lives On.

Can President Felipe Calderón pull an Alvaro Uribe? Since taking office on Dec. 1, the embattled Mexican president has been aping the tough tactics of his Colombian counterpart.

Political cartoons can shape an election. They can shift society. But for decades, the one thing political cartooning hasn't changed is itself. Some are now drawn in color, and the humor has shifted toward pop culture, but political cartoons largely remain what they were a century ago: rectangular slabs, usually in black and white, parked in a corner of the editorial page.But evolution is finally happening, in the form of animated online cartoons.

The only thing harder than writing a long essay, many authors will tell you, is writing short. "But give people harsh restraints," says Katherine Sharpe, 27, "and sometimes it spurs creativity, rather than hampering it." That's the idea behind 400 Words, the new zine she edits that limits its pieces to just what you'd think."I don't remember the three times my mom tried to kill herself before I was five.

ED BRADLEY, 65 A Sunday-night staple on "60 Minutes" for 25 years, Bradley was known for his consummate cool. With athletes and artists, memorably, but with hard-news subjects as well--one of his 19 Emmys was for an interview with Timothy McVeigh, and other reports focused on AIDS in Africa, the Columbine shootings and sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.

Red tape can keep adoptive parents waiting years for a child. So news that the government of Malawi had expedited Madonna's adoption of a 1-year-old named David--waiving requirements like a period of local residency--disturbed many. "It's frustrating," says Tennessee's Emily Fannon, who's been waiting nine months with her husband to adopt a Chinese daughter. "Just because [a celebrity] may be able to provide more, that's not really what families are made of."Human-rights groups in the...

If the Federation of American Scientists made a list of educational videogames, you might expect to find Oregon Trail, the story of Conestoga wagons trekking into the American West, or the geography favorite Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Is the world ready for a Mideast Olympics? While there are no formal campaigns until after the 2014 Winter Games are announced next July, Doha, Qatar, is weighing a bid for the 2016 Summer Games.

In November 2004, pro hockey was on the brink of disaster. The lockout that would eventually cancel the 2004-05 season was one month old, and as players and owners waited out the billion-dollar staredown, the worst part was that no one seemed to notice.

"Brokeback Mountain" is many things, according to critics. Breathtaking. Tragic. Heart-wrenching. Turns out it's ripe for comedy, too. In early January, even when filmgoers' awareness of "that gay cowboy movie" was low, there were Photoshop posters that replaced Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's iconic denim-and-Stetsons pose with Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff ("Kickback Mountain"), and Skeletor and He-Man ("Grayskull Mountain").Now there are Brokeback "mash-ups"--homemade trailer parodies that...