Tuned In

Idol Gives Back Gives Back

This week's edition of American Idol will attempt to raise consciousness about, and propose solutions to, one of the most tragic problems afflicting our planet: that there are not enough hours of Idol already programmed on Fox.

The Curious Capitalist

The First Starbucks Recession

CEO Howard Schultz attributes the company's first-ever U.S. sales slump to an American consumer "under tremendous pressure."

Swampland

Clinton's Turn

Her questioning of Gen. Petraeus was impressive; without grandstanding, she fufilled her oversight role and made some soberly effective points about the failures of the surge and the problems with an unlimited U.S. commitment in Iraq.

The China Blog

Homer and Me: An Odyssey

At the risk of turning this into the TIME: China and Self-Congratulations Blog, I am compelled to announce that I have reached a journalistic milestone: my head being morphed into Homer Simpson.

Obama, Clinton Camps Hold Dueling Calls

The two campaigns return to the back-and-forth media calls with a Hoosier/economic focus Tuesday. Get details and your 24/7 political news on The Page

Cape Town

South Africa's Crime Wave — in Bookstores

Where 52 murders and 144 rapes are committed each day, crime fiction becomes a vehicle for exploring a society in crisis

Huaxi

The Richest Reds in China

How the comrades in one rural village took to heart Deng Xiaoping's exhortation "let some people get rich first"

Time.com's First Annual Blog Index

From millions of blogs about nothing, we've selected the 25 best about something — from politics to sports to sex. We've got a few about nothing, too