Taking the High Road
Ronnie Peyton had just wrapped up a long day at work, at a Seattle nonprofit that helps find housing for the homeless. It was Christmas 2012, and the weather in Renton, Wash., was frightful, but the...
View ArticleIndia's Prime Minister To Step Down
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ruled out on Friday serving another term after an election due by May and threw his support behind Nehru-Gandhi dynasty scion Rahul Gandhi to...
View ArticleNSA Developing Computer To Crack Privacy Codes: Report
(Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency is trying to develop a computer that could ultimately break most encryption programs, whether they are used to protect other nations' spying programs or...
View ArticleThe Fall of France
It’s a stretch, but what is happening today in France is being compared to the revocation of 1685. In that year, Louis XIV, the Sun King who built the Palace of Versailles, revoked the Edict of Nantes,...
View ArticleThe Myth of Health Care's Free Market
Has it ever occurred to you to negotiate with the pilot of the plane you just boarded about her pay?Assuming the pilot was willing to take bids for her services, would you have any idea of how to...
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Today in Tabs: Thrills from the Enlargement of the Tab
Columnists are driving the tabs today: We finally found out what Matthew Yglesias cares about (hint: it's not Bangladeshis). He's even wrong about elves though. Ezra Klein asked the Post for eight...
View ArticlePlaying With Frozen Balls
Hugh Freeze is the name of the football coach at the University of Mississippi, but it also happens to be the game plan for half the National Football League’s quartet of wild-card round playoff games...
View ArticleTwo Words That Could Hurt Your Kids: Nice Job
The most controversial topics in professional sports may be doping and concussions, but in youth sports, no two words are more inflammatory than “participation trophy,” those “awards” given to kids...
View ArticleGadget Lust: Your Brisket Needs a Bath!
I’m as food-obsessed as your average Alton Brown groupie, but couldn’t imagine why I’d want a sous-vide circulator. These immersion heaters – which look similar to what you heat and aerate a fish tank...
View ArticleGetting Away With Murder
It was an open secret that one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst tormentors, Bosco Ntaganda, lived on Avenue des Tulipés until 2012, crossing into Rwanda now and then despite a travel ban....
View ArticleYou’re Only Human. That’s the Problem
If you have the leisure time to read Newsweek, then you probably live with a generally manageable nexus of concerns. You know you are going to die, but are not terribly bothered by existential...
View ArticleChristie’s Artful Conquest
On November 12, Christie’s, the largest auction house in the world, set a record by selling $691.6 million worth of art in a single night. The lots included a gnarled, surreal $142.4 million triptych...
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'After All the People We Killed, We Felt Dizzy'
As two military-style helicopters touch down in a remote village in the jungles of Ecuador, masked men with guns hop out and scurry into a one-room schoolhouse. Inside they capture their target: a...
View ArticleTwo Numbers: The Housing Market Breathes Under Water
The housing market exited the trauma ward in 2013. Prices rose as much as 30 percent in some areas, bidding wars broke out and the foreclosure rate halved from its peak. But the patient is by no means...
View ArticleBest of Frenemies
Pakistan and the United States aren’t allies – they “just pretend to be allies.” Or so says Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the U.S. He’s making waves with his latest book, Magnificent...
View ArticleSupreme Court Halts Gay Marriage In Utah
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday halted gay marriage in Utah at least temporarily by granting a request from state officials appealing a lower-court ruling that had allowed...
View ArticleGary Shteyngart Finally Tells the Truth
Gary Shteyngart is a liar. For a good decade now he has been writing novels under that name, never once revealing that it is a nom de plume – he was born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart in 1972 at the Otto...
View ArticleWoman Known As Jihad Jane Sentenced To 10 Years In Plot
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday sentenced an American woman who called herself Jihad Jane to 10 years in prison - at least a decade less than prosecutors had sought for her role in a...
View ArticleNew California Bill Would Change Rules for Reporting Rapes on College Campuses
A few days after the start of the new year, Sofie Karasek, a junior at the University of California at Berkeley, received a call from Southern California Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s office asking if she...
View ArticleWhy Krauthammer Is Sitting On Top of the Book Charts
The dean of conservative commentators Charles Krauthammer’s new book is flying off the shelves -- and nobody knows exactly why.Sitting atop the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list for two months...
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