So there’s talk of Rupert Murdoch making The Wall Street Journal unavailable on Google search and only available on rival search engine Bing. The idea is that Microsoft (which owns rival search engine Bing) pays the Journal to take itself off of Google’s search engine. The Journal then earns...

The New York Times reported today that a Hamas-held  Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will most likely be traded for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners: JERUSALEM — Israel and the Islamist group Hamas appeared to be nearing a deal on Monday to exchange a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian...

The topic du jour today seems to be healthcare and with that comes, unsurprisingly, some bizarro stories that are more hysterics than actual substantive events. Take this one in The Hill which reports that Rep. Patrick Kennedy was banned from communion at a Catholic church because of his support for...

And so Consider has a blog —”The Conversationalist.” I’m Daniel Strauss, the magazine’s Editor-at-Large which in this case is a fancy name for blog editor or chief blog writer. Along with the rest of Consider’s staff, I’ll be striving to write thought provoking posts...