Super Bowl XLVIII: Down and Out in New Jersey
The First Game, New BrunswickOn November 6, 1869, The College of New Jersey, later renamed Princeton, sends 25 male students to face Rutgers in the first intercollegiate football game. The Rutgers...
View ArticleExclusive: Why the Next Super Bowl Could Be Much Safer
During Sunday's Super Bowl, there's a good chance at least one player will get his head smashed hard enough to injure his brain. Football players get concussions nearly as often as lifeguards get...
View ArticleObama Ready to Sidestep Congress in Today's State of the Union
Tweets from https://twitter.com/Newsweek/newsweek-sotuPresident Obama’s State of the Union Address faces a Congress frozen in partisan gridlock while his own popularity has taken a hit over the past...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today in Tabs: The State of Our Tabs is Strong
President Obama will give the State of the Union speech tonight at 9PM Eastern, after which the Republicans will provide three different rebuttals corresponding to the three main currents of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sochi Games Already Take Gold Medal for Embezzlement
To understand how the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi got to be the most expensive ever, one has to get acquainted with something very close to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s heart: martial arts.As a...
View ArticleFull Text of Obama's Speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Following is a text of the prepared remarks by President Barack Obama for his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday."Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress,...
View ArticleObama Lays Out Go-It-Alone Approach In State Of Union Speech
President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to bypass a divided Congress and take action on his own to bolster America's middle class in a State of the Union speech that he used to try to breathe new life...
View ArticleRepublicans Respond and Respond to Obama State of Union
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress responded in competing voices on Tuesday to President Barack Obama's annual State of the Union address as various wings of the party vied to...
View ArticleIn Applause, Both Sides Find Glimmer of Hope for Immigration
Cheering was mostly a partisan affair at President Obama’s State of the Union address, but a bout of bipartisanship, at least in applause is giving hope to both sides of the aisle that this will be the...
View ArticleObama's Bait and Switch
It wasn’t the speech we were told to expect. When President Obama walked into the well of the House chamber, all expectations were that it would be a combative address, brimming with defiance toward...
View ArticleExclusive: CIA Helped Saudis in Secret Chinese Missile Deal
Saudi Arabia has long been a backroom player in the Middle East's nuclear game of thrones, apparently content to bankroll the ambitions of Pakistan and Iraq (under Saddam Hussein) to counter the rise...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Residents Stuck in Cars, Schools and Homes as Atlanta Freezes
Atlanta is at a standstill. Two inches of snow and freezing temperatures since Tuesday have snarled the usually warm city in an “unspeakably horrible” traffic jam scenario now entering its second...
View ArticleGrimm Tales of a U.S. Congressman’s Thuggish Behavior
Thuggery on Capitol Hill? Say it ain’t so.Representative Michael Grimm, R-New York, will personally break you if you ask about allegations of campaign finance misconduct. Michael Scotto, political...
View ArticlePete Seeger's Music Spoke to My Generation, and Mom's
It was through the speakers of a brown plastic Fisher Price tape player that I met Pete Seeger. I was four, he was 65. I was afraid of the dark and he was the friendly voice making it less frightening....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today in Tabs: Put a Sock In It, You Tabless Wonders
The Daily Dot announced today that it is acquiring little-known UK tech blog The Kernel which has had a short but troubled existence, launching in 2011 only to shut down last March after stiffing...
View ArticleThe Perks of Being a Whistle-blower
Gregory Lynam was watching President Obama's helicopter land at the White House several blocks away from his 12th-floor office when his desk phone rang. A middle-aged man speaking nervously in a...
View ArticleOf a Runaway American Dream and Worshipping at the NFL Altar
Cameras, cocktails, confetti and cornerbacks. The Super Bowl is now as much about a football game as Christmas is about a virgin birth in Bethlehem.Super Bowl XLVIII will be staged Sunday at Met-Life...
View ArticleGOP Letter to the President Offers Solutions, but Not the Kind Obama Wants
House Republican leadership sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday morning outlining the areas of his State of the Union speech where they have found “potential for agreement.”"Naturally, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shirin Neshat’s Photos of the Egyptian Revolution
The toe-tagged feet of the dead are decorated with calligraphy. The worry-wrinkled heads of the poor and pious are also lettered with delicate script.In her latest project "Our House Is on Fire,"...
View ArticleSyria Talks Pause for a Moment of Silence to Mourn the Dead
GENEVA (Reuters) - Opposing sides in Syria's civil war stood together in silence to honor victims of the three year conflict on Thursday, but week-old peace talks were still stuck on the question of...
View Article