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Photo Essay: The Ukrainian Spring
The people made their voices heard: After weeks of protests in the Ukrainian capital in which hundreds of thousands took to the streets, President Viktor Yanukovych has said he will hold roundtable...
View ArticleUruguay Is Poised to Become First Country to Legalize and Regulate Pot
Update: After nearly 12 hours of debate, Uruguay's Senate approved a bill that will legalize pot and place the industry under total state control by a vote of 16 to 13. President José Mujica is...
View ArticleNelson Mandela Gives Obama Relief from Health Care Critics
Nelson Mandela’s death has a silver lining for President Obama: a news story to blot out the running sore of the Obamacare rollout. Instead of endless complaining and criticism about the healthcare.gov...
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Today in Tabs: You Sit On A Throne Of Lies
Yesterday we had a whole online hoax and debunking between about 2:30 and 4:30 eastern. It started with this SF Bay Guardian post about a purported-Googler yelling at Google bus protesters. The video...
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Boos for Zuma, Cheers for Obama as the World Says Farewell to Mandela
Soweto — No sooner had the tens of thousands -- who for hours weathered steady rain and a chill wind by singing and dancing -- sat down than President Obama propelled them out of their seats again.The...
View ArticleRepublican Civil War Reaches Texas as the Tea Party Fields a Candidate...
For months, Tea Party conservatives in Texas have been praying for a challenge to incumbent Senator John Cornyn, who they think of as a moderate. As the filing deadline of 6 p.m. Central Time on Monday...
View ArticleWith Budget Deal, Lawmakers Hope to Dodge Shutdown 2.0
It’s a bipartisan Christmas miracle!After six weeks of budget negotiations following the government shutdown in October, negotiators announced an agreement Tuesday evening on Capitol Hill. Chief budget...
View ArticleThe Robots Are Coming
Snow White was prescient. In a scene from the 1937 Disney movie, she gets a team of birds and cute woodland animals to clean the dwarfs’ house while she warbles “Whistle While You Work.”A decade or two...
View ArticleNorman Rockwell Portrait of Ike Heading for Public Display
The mystery that has captivated the art world for nearly two weeks is beginning to be solved. And it is good news for Americans who admire the works of Norman Rockwell. One of his best known portraits,...
View ArticleCan Paul Ryan Sell the Budget Deal to Fuming Conservatives?
Budget negotiators on Tuesday announced they had reached a bipartisan deal after six weeks of tense talks between Republicans and Democrats. Now comes the arm-twisting.The leadership of both parties...
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Is the Pope a Socialist?
“It’s nothing short of miraculous,” Don Franco Ottonelli says as he admires his brainchild, a modern, new apartment complex for immigrants and the homeless near the center of Acqui Terme, a town in...
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Today in Tabs: Malcolm Tabswell
Kicking the tab that won't die a little further down the field is earnest trend-humper Malcolm Gladwell, who demonstrates the Art of Smarm for us in a New Yorker blog post today. The best response came...
View ArticleSign Language Interpreter at Mandela Memorial a Fake
Many people, including the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa and the vice president of the World Federation of the Deaf are saying the sign language interpreter at Nelson...
View ArticleGood Luck Getting Psychiatric Care
If you are mentally troubled, don’t count on professional medical help to nurse you back to health. It is getting increasingly hard to get treated, even if you have insurance.Almost a year after the...
View ArticleDirty Money Makes the World Go Round
When it comes to dirty money, private bankers with keys to Swiss vaults storing paintings and jewels for American doctors and lawyers are barely contenders. The real players -- accounting for nearly $6...
View ArticleU.S. Drilling Boom Leaves Some Homeowners In A Big Hole
(Reuters) - When Gary Gless bought his sleek, modernist house in Los Angeles in 2002, he thought he had hit a "gold mine." The world's largest inner-city park - featuring a lush, 18-hole golf course -...
View ArticleIndia's Ruling Congress Party Slams Supreme Court For Gay Sex Ban
(Reuters) - India's ruling party on Thursday slammed the Supreme Court for reinstating a ban on gay sex, taking an unexpectedly bold stance ahead of elections in the religiously conservative nation.The...
View ArticleBudget Deal Hits New Snag as Both Sides Hunker Down Over Jobless Benefits
Update: The House passed the bipartisan budget agreement Thursday evening, 332-94. It now heads to the Senate for final passage. The House will recess without extending unemployment benefits for the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Government Is Paying Through the Nose For Private Contractors
The budget debate now consuming Washington often seems to come down to guns versus butter, or at least its contemporary manifestation, Reaper Drones versus food stamps. What gets lost in the...
View ArticleQuora Question: How Will China's Bitcoin Rules Impact Its Value?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
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