By Ethan Bronner in today’s NYTimes.

From far away, this is how it looks: There is a country out there where tens of millions of white Christians, voting freely, select as their leader a black man of modest origin, the son of a Muslim. There is a place on Earth — call it America — where [...]

I’m spending a few minutes a day — actually, probably a few too many minutes — playing a Web game called Travian. It reminds me of Warcraft 2, only really, really slow. The whole point is that one can only take a few actions per sitting, then one must wait many hours for those actions [...]