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Matteo Bagnoli/Flickr Only Baby Boomers Could Afford to Be Helicopter Parents
Do Millennials have enough money to live up to the child-rearing norms set by their moms and dads?
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Manic Pixie Dream Dissidents: How the World Misunderstands Pussy Riot
Western coverage has reduced these Russian dissidents to more familiar narratives of youthful rebellion or damsels in distress, missing their entire point and adopting Moscow's own language.
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Kim Kardashistan: A Violent Dictator's Daughter on a Quest for Pop Stardom
Gulnara "Googoosha" Karimova, whose father rules Uzbekistan with an iron fist, wants to be a Western-style celebrity, but a despot's daughter still can't have it all.
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Worlds Unknown: The Regions Ignored by Google Translate
Google's translation tool has the power to open up parts of the world we don't understand well -- if it just had the right languages.
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The Day Yahoo Decided I Liked Reading About Child Murder
Algorithms are shaping how we see the world around us, with big consequences. What a machine thinks we need to know can become what we fear.
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Censorship as Performance Art: Uzbekistan's Bizarre Wikipedia Ban
The country's decision to block the Uzbek-language wiki may be more about showmanship and nationalism than controlling information.
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The Reverse Orientalism of Looking For an 'Arab Spring' in Central Asia
The region has its share of dictatorships and protesters, but there's something ironic about the too-eager comparisons to the Middle East.
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The Strange Saga of a Made-Up Activist and Her Life—and Death—as a Hoax
The life and tragic death of Uzbek woman Gulsumoy Abdujalilova turned out to be fake, but her meaning for dissident movements in closed societies like Uzbekistan's is all too real
