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'Life Is Worth Nothing in Guatemala'
There's a common phrase that Guatemalans say about violence in their country: En Guatemala, la vida no vale nada. In Guatemala, life is worth nothing. During the country’s bloody and genocidal 36-year...
View ArticleIn Return to Vietnam, Vets Tackle Mess They Left Behind
It’s not easy to find a turkey dinner in Hanoi, but a handful of Americans and their Vietnamese friends gathered last Thursday over an imported bird cooked for them at a fancy restaurant in the...
View ArticleOld Family Democrats Sing the Song of the South
Democrats are about as welcome in the South these days as a skunk at a garden party.With Republicans dominating Southern politics, it’s hard to imagine that Dixie was ever the inviting Democratic...
View ArticleThe Man Who Warned Congress about Pakistan Nukes Paid a Steep Price
Richard Barlow was driving his 13-year-old motorhome through a mountain state’s blizzard the week before Thanksgiving when news broke of the Iran nuclear deal.Bad memories flooded his mind, not that...
View ArticleAtheists in Foxholes Want Chaplains, Too
As the U.S. Senate renews debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, secularists are pushing lawmakers to add an amendment to the bill that would permit non-religious chaplains in the military....
View ArticleReviewing the Goodreads Best Books of 2013 Without Having Read Any of Them
As part of a partnership with Goodreads, Newsweek has been keeping tabs on the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013. And at long last, the winners are in. So what's the best line from Dan Brown's Inferno? We...
View ArticleInvestors Are Betting the Company That Fumbled Healthcare.gov Has Room to Fall
James S. Chanos, a prominent short-seller in New York City known for wagering on falling stock prices, counts shares in CGI Group, the parent company of CGI Federal, as among his “largest short...
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Walmart Removes Fake Bansky 'Destroy Capitalism' Print
Much to the internet's delight, Walmart -- the world’s largest retailer -- featured a fake Banksy canvas print entitled "Destroy Capitalism." That is until very recently.Walmart Spokesperson Bao Nguyen...
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An Evening With Rembrandt And Vermeer
It was a veritable nightclub: yearning masses huddled in the cold, hemmed in and blocked out by a velvet rope. A security guard, practicing professional heartlessness, deflected entreaties. A woman in...
View ArticleA Hard Lesson from Motown: They Will Steal Your Pension
Anyone in a public-sector job looking forward to retiring in comfort should look carefully at what is going on in Detroit and Springfield, Ill. Sherlock Holmes would call it the case of the missing...
View ArticleMichigan Likely to Pass Abortion Bill Democrats Dub 'Rape Insurance'
Michigan is poised to enact a stringent proposal that would ban health insurance coverage for abortion even in cases of rape, incest, or if the mother’s health is at risk, even though the governor has...
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Will American Art Lovers Ever See Rockwell’s 'Saying Grace' Again?
For nearly ten minutes, everyone in the auction room at Sotheby’s New York held their breath and tensed their shoulders as the fate of Saying Grace, one of Norman Rockwell’s most touching and best...
View ArticleThe Newtown Massacre: Inside. Out
On the afternoon of December 14, 2012, I was on the phone, battling with my wife. It was a carryover from the night before, a fight about a dress she wanted to buy for our daughter to wear to her...
View ArticleBlackmail, Murder and Mayhem Engulf Toronto’s Mayor of Crack
The bizarre story of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford took a sinister turn Wednesday, veering from boorish defenses of his smoking crack to blackmail and murder.In a stunning revelation, Toronto police documents...
View ArticleShould a Sick Child Be Allowed to Choose Death? Belgians Think So
Jutte van den Werff Ten Bosch has already had the talk with her 10-year-old son. Several times, in fact. No, not the sex talk. The euthanasia talk.“Even if he said, ‘I want to die’, I’d support him,”...
View ArticleNow You Can 3-D Print Your Guns in Metal
One of the fondest dreams of modern-day backyard tinkerers is on the verge of coming true. Engineers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have announced publication of their open-source plans for...
View ArticleOne Clue Budget Negotiations Are Going Well: Silence
The first rule of congressional budget negotiations: Do not talk about the budget negotiations.“I have no idea what’s going on,” said Representative Jim McDermott, D-Washington. “I’m on the Budget...
View ArticleObama Leads World in Mourning Mandela
The family of Nelson Mandela gathered around his deathbed were the first to start mourning the South African freedom fighter whose dignity and grace in the face of nearly three decades in prison led to...
View ArticleMandela in 2002: 'America Is a Threat to World Peace'
Nelson Mandela, 84, may be the world’s most respected statesman. Sentenced to life in prison on desolate Robben Island in 1964 for advocating armed resistance to apartheid in South Africa, the African...
View ArticleThe Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA
One of the great things about the late great Nelson Mandela is that he didn’t hold grudges.How else could he have accepted normal relations with the CIA, which tipped off the white-supremacy regime to...
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