Who’s Who in Bridgegate: A Christie Whodunnit
It started out small. Four days. Two lanes. One angry mayor. A traffic jam in Fort Lee. "It's not that big of deal," New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie insisted.Then, two weeks ago, the scandal,...
View ArticleWall Street's Reefer Madness
What did you expect when President Obama pronounces marijuana no “more dangerous than alcohol”?Wall Street is calling it the “green rush,” but as more than 20 states approve marijuana for medicinal...
View ArticleUkraine President Hints at Compromise, but PM Slams Protesters
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich called for an emergency session of parliament to end political crisis and violent unrest, in a sign he might be ready to soften his hardline...
View ArticleUkrainian Riot Police Caught on Video Making Naked Man Stand in Snow, Taking...
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian riot police made a detained protester strip and then stand naked in the snow while they took pictures of him, a video posted on a newspaper's website showed.The video,...
View ArticleBombs in Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) - A wave of bomb attacks hit Cairo on Friday, killing six people and raising fears that an Islamist insurgency is gaining pace on the eve of the third anniversary of the uprising that...
View ArticleSnowden’s Red Dawn
Give the hard-liners credit: After one stunning revelation after another about the National Security Agency’s Orwellian spying operations, they finally managed to land a punch this week on Edward...
View ArticleChristie’s Elliot Ness
While vowing to “cooperate with all appropriate inquiries” into the politically motivated lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last fall, embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hired a...
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Today in Tabs: Diseased Cannibal Tabs from Planet Hillary
When we look back at the 2016 presidential race, bloody, beaten, much less innocent than we are now (as implausible as that might seem), we will identify this NY Times Magazine cover as the official...
View ArticleObamacare Enrollment Hits Three Million: Official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people enrolled in private health insurance under Obamacare has soared by more than one-third in recent weeks to around 3 million, according to government data...
View ArticleOpinion: What Mike Huckabee Wants to Take Away From Women
Memo to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and the bosses at for-profit corporations who think they belong in every doctor’s office and that they should be able to decide whether their employees...
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Today in Tabs: Mole Tabs in Space
Hello, I'm Paul Ford. Rusty Foster is tired. Here are your tabs.DEATH TAB II. In the wake of the fury vortex that "Dr. V's Magical Putter" created, Grantland published two responses. The first, by...
View ArticleAuthorities Identify Remains of Missing New York Teen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parts of a decomposed body found along the shore of New York City's East River were confirmed on Tuesday as belonging to a severely autistic teenager last seen in October wandering...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Rove Went Into Denial on Election Night
On Election Night 2012, Democrats had more than the reelection of President Obama to celebrate. Karl Rove, the mastermind Republican strategist hated and feared by Democrats, had a meltdown live on Fox...
View ArticleThe Price of Cheap Manufacturing: Chinese Pollution Makes Its Way to U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Pollution from China travels in large quantities across the Pacific Ocean to the United States, a new study has found, making environmental and health problems unexpected side...
View ArticleUkraine's President, Opposition Meet After Three Killed In Clashes
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich met opposition leaders on Wednesday in an attempt to defuse street violence in which three people were killed overnight, but tension remained high...
View ArticleObama’s Wish List Means Nada
Talking to plants or, for that matter, a comatose patient is said to be a good deed even if the quiescent don’t “hear” in the conventional meaning of the word. In a sense, that’s what will happen when...
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Today in Tabs: They Told Him Tabs Were Impossible to Hunt
Hello, I'm Paul Ford. Rusty Foster is recovering. My tenure here is now over and I thank you for your patience. Here are your tabs.TODAY IN WONKING. Ezra Klein, described by the New York Times as a top...
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Syria Rejects Authenticity of Graphic Photos Detailing Systematic Torture
Warning: This story contains graphic images BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria on Wednesday rejected a report purporting to show the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees, calling it an...
View ArticleChild Porn Victims Go to Court to Try to Make Collectors Pay
The abusive crime of child pornography is universally condemned. But is it fair that a few of these abusive images on a viewer's hard drive could cost them more than $3 million? That's the question...
View ArticleMiddlemarch grasped the human condition like few novels before or after
I don’t know if women can have it all, a question that has spawned innumerable “think pieces,” but they should surely have more than Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of George Eliot’s 1874 novel,...
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