For the Sex Industry, Earnings Vary by City
A massive, three-year study by the Urban Institute has produced significant findings on the size and shape of the underground sex economy in eight U.S. cities. It found massive discrepancies in how...
View ArticleN.J. Stops Non-Dealer Car Sales and Tesla Calls Foul
Earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie lauded the innovation fostered by the free market. “We need to talk about the fact that we are for a free-market society that allows your effort...
View ArticleMalaysia Says No Evidence Missing Plane Flew Hours After Losing Contact
KUALA LUMPUR/HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities said on Thursday there was no evidence that a jetliner missing for almost six days flew for hours after losing contact with air...
View ArticleNY Rapper Le1f Has a Black Answer for Gay Questions
“I don’t feel pressure to make anything because of how people talk about me,” says the rapper Khalif Diouf — better known by his stage name, Le1f. People talk about him plenty. Since the video for the...
View ArticleAuthor Charles Murray Knows What’s Best for You
In need of a stern lecture on proper professional behavior from a fatherly figure? Then Charles Murray’s The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don’ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear...
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Thousands of Russian Troops Mass Near Ukraine for Military Exercises
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia announced on Thursday it had started military exercises near the border with Ukraine in what is likely to be seen as a show of force in the standoff with Kiev and the West...
View ArticleCar Plows into Crowd Near Major Texas Festival, Two Dead
(Reuters) - Two people were killed and 23 injured when a car plowed into a crowd of people early on Thursday morning near the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) music and film festival in Austin,...
View ArticleNasty CIA/Senate Spying Showdown Could Get Uglier
In the early 1980s, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence discovered that a staffer had taken home hundreds of pages of highly classified documents covering decades of CIA operations. It asked...
View ArticleEric Holder Moves Against Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing
Do the drug crime, do less time. If it’s a non-violent drug crime, that might soon be the case.Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission on Thursday in support of...
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Kerry Warns U.S., Europe Ready to Act if Crimea Referendum Held
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union will take serious steps against Russia if a referendum on Ukraine's Crimea region goes ahead as planned on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of...
View ArticleNewsweek Rewind: Our First Article About the Web, Which Just Turned 25
On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed an "information management" system that would become known as the Web. We celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his...
View ArticleThe Marijuana Industry Pleads With Congress: Treat Us Like a Regular Business
The House Budget Committee isn’t the most august room in Congress, but it commands respect, what with its oil portraits of former chairmen including Leon Panetta, who went on to be Defense Secretary...
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China Holds Balance in Crimea Stand-Off
Russia is widely expected to veto on Saturday a Western-backed Security Council resolution endorsing Ukraine's "territorial integrity." But the talk of the United Nations is mostly about a country that...
View ArticleTop White House Aides Rushed to See Sen. Feinstein After She Ripped CIA
White House lawyers did nothing when CIA Director John Brennan told them he was bringing the Justice Department into a dispute with the Senate intelligence committee, according to a published report,...
View ArticleInvestigators Focus on Foul Play Behind Missing Plane-Sources
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An investigation into the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner is focusing more on a suspicion of foul play, as evidence suggests it was diverted hundreds of miles off...
View ArticleFacebook's Zuckerberg Called Obama to 'Express Frustration' Over NSA Spy...
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg called President Barack Obama on Wednesday to “express frustration” over the government’s surveillance and hacking programs, one day after the latest investigative...
View ArticleLondon's Charismatic Mayor Has National Appeal, and Enemies in His Own Party
This contest goes far beyond personalities: It is a struggle for the very soul of conservatism, with London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, striving to show that it can be a joyful, optimistic and...
View ArticleMetro-North Report Slams the Rail System as Unsafe
In a stinging rebuke, federal regulators on Friday slammed the Metro-North rail system as unsafe, days after a Metro-North worker in East Harlem was struck and killed by a train in the latest fatality...
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Today in Tabs: Diversity in Tabs
Relying on half Brazilian blood to carry me through the rest of the tournament. #U-S-Ach— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 12, 2010We are in the waning days of incomprehension, the last time we can blame...
View ArticleThe Geography of Autism
Researchers have long know that autism is found in clusters. Certain communities and states have rates much higher than the rest of the country — a child born in California is several times more likely...
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