Alma Guillermoprieto | NYRB | 12 April 2012 Central and South American leaders are bracing themselves to break with the United States and abandon the "war on drugs". They can't win it. The costs are too great. What follows? Perhaps legalisation for marijuana, at least Comments David Gelles | FT | 14 April 2012 Enjoyable profile of everybody's favourite popular science writer, Jonah Lehrer. Former Rhodes scholar at Oxford with a passion for neuroscience, and a flair for writing. “Genius is like porn, you know it when you see it” Comments Gabriel Arana | American Prospect | 11 April 2012 Arana recalls teenage experience of being pushed into undergoing ex-gay therapy. It didn't work, of course. Far from it. Years later, he confronts the psychologist who made a career out of offering this therapy Comments Anonymous | Philosopher's Beard | 12 April 2012 Should countries apologise for historic crimes? Consider national identity: Is a country the same one that committed the crime? And collective responsibility: Can an entire population be held accountable for a country's actions? Comments Mark Betancourt | Air & Space | 26 March 2012 On flying a U2 spy plane. Or what happens when technology pushes the human body beyond its limits. Nausea, disorientation, even hallucinations are common. Occasionally a pilot passes out. But the real problems begin after landing Comments Larry Olmsted | Forbes | 12 April 2012 Think you’ve tasted the famous Japanese Kobe beef? You may have in Japan, but in the US? No. You can't get it in stores, not by mail, and certainly not in restaurants, no matter how fancy, or what they claimed. You have been duped Comments | 
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