Devin Leonard | Businessweek | 19 April 2012 It used to be said that SEC staff attorneys would have trouble finding ice cream in a Dairy Queen. But there have been some recent successes. Such as the insider-trading case that saw hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam put behind bars Comments Héctor Tobar | Smithsonian | 20 April 2012 Seeking out Mitt's Mexican roots in "a place famous for producing true hombres, a rural frontier where thousands of Mormons still live, and where settling differences at the point of a gun has been a tragically resilient tradition" Comments Patrick French | Hindustan Times | 21 April 2012 By foreigners (pre- and post-colonial), by Indians, and by that "sort of hell realm of second or third-generation authors of Indian origin who return to the land of their ancestors to write about it". Step forward now, VS Naipaul Comments Evgeny Morozov | Slate | 23 April 2012 Hackers collective Anonymous and the US State Department don't have much in common but they do both proclaim their support for Internet freedom. "Ironically, both may end up hurting the very noble cause that they seek to promote" Comments Dr Watts | Deadspin | 17 April 2012 A medic in Afghanistan. "I was running a forward combat aid station as a general medical officer to a Marine Corps infantry battalion. Standard protocol is to gather the casualty's disembodied limbs and tissue as best you can" Comments Karim Sadjadpour | Foreign Policy | 23 April 2012 In the Islamic Republic of Iran, sex is not confined to the bedroom, it's deeply political. And the country's fundamentalist clerics aren't above considering juridical aspects of the most bizarre sexual imaginings Comments | 
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