Most Americans Support Mandated Birth Control Coverage, Study Finds
A University of Michigan Health System study has found that a striking 69 percent of Americans support mandated insurance coverage of birth control.Recently published in TheJournal of the American...
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From Mad to Worse
Halfway through Larry Weinerman’s 90-minute anger management class, the middle-aged woman in pink jeans suddenly loses it. “That was my Corvette he was letting her ride in,” she yells at her...
View ArticleA Bee in Their Bonnet
Bees are dropping like flies. Colony collapse disorder, the mysterious global epidemic in which honeybees suddenly disappear or die, has wiped out over 10 million hives since 2007 in North America...
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Speed Is the Drug
A Formula One (F1) race car barrels into the pit lane, decelerating rapidly from around 200 mph in the track to 50 mph in the lane, just before it stops in front of a 20-man team standing and squatting...
View ArticleYour Lying Eyes
That didn’t take long.Less than a fortnight into the 2014 Major League Baseball season, into the national pastime’s brave new world of Orwellian instant replay review, into its attempt to eradicate...
View ArticleA Journalist Recalls Being Kidnapped in East Ukraine
On the night of April 21, I got a call from a member of the Sloviansk, Ukraine, Self-Defense, the pro-Russia activists in control of the city. I was in Kramatorsk, about 8 miles away, and I was asked...
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That 'Ching!-Ching!' Guy
He’s the maestro of murder and mayhem, writing soundtracks for squad cars and sirens, street cops and cigar-chomping sergeants and the lowlifes they chase. Since the 1970s, Mike Post has written TV...
View ArticleThis Is Your Brain on Apps
If puppy golfer Jordan Spieth had a brain-pattern monitor in his hat wirelessly linked to a data-crunching app on his caddy’s iPhone, he would’ve known how to steady himself and win the Masters a few...
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Lost Warhol Computer Art Recovered From Floppy Disks
A trove of previously unpublished works created by Andy Warhol on an Amiga desktop computer in 1985 have been retrieved from a series of floppy disks, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, announced...
View ArticleToday in Tabs: Post-tab
I’m just a material girl living in a post-text world.— Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) April 24, 2014Felix Salmon announced earlier this week that he is leaving Reuters, which has become the Event Horizon...
View ArticleNewsweek Rewind: 30 Years Ago, Scientists Discovered the Cause of AIDS
In the early 1980s, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, surged into public awareness, seemingly out of nowhere. But it had been around for years, even though it took until 1981 for the U.S....
View ArticleFDA Moves to Regulate E-Cigarettes
The days of unregulated e-cigarettes might be up in faux smoke.The Food and Drug Administration has announced proposed rules that would treat e-cigarettes like tobacco cigarettes with regard to...
View ArticleExclusive: U.S. Treasury Says Putin ‘Not Off the Table’ for Future Sanctions
President Vladimir Putin may have escaped the first rounds of U.S. sanctions on Russian government officials and Crimean separatist leaders, but that could change if events on the ground continue to...
View ArticleColumbia University Hit With Federal Complaint for Mishandling Sexual Assault...
Twenty-three Columbia University students collectively filed federal complaints against the Ivy League university Thursday, alleging a range of violations involving the mishandling of sexual assault...
View ArticleMcConnell Tries to Shrug Off His Senate Job
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will be the most vulnerable Republican incumbent in the November elections. He's also the leader of the Senate Republican caucus. The two facts are not a...
View ArticleFixing Farming Without Breaking Food
With the recent rise of locavore cuisine and its promise of sustainably sourced produce, dairy and meat, you might be tempted to think that farms are increasingly Earth-friendly places.Well, get that...
View ArticleA Breakout Film Star, Still Living the Life of His Character
When I ask James “Primo” Grant when he left the Bloods street gang, a defiant smile creeps across his mouth, toward the fulsome beard that covers his chin. “I’m still active 100 percent,” he says. “I...
View ArticleSanctions Land Like a Bomb in Corporate Suites
Within minutes of the announcement of U.S. sanctions against Russia in March, there was a surge in traffic on the website of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which sends out a blacklist of...
View ArticlePhotographer Frank Relle Brings New Orleans to Moscow
Let’s say you’re a cultural attaché working at an American embassy in a country whose relations with the United States have cooled of late. What better way to change the atmosphere—and spice things...
View ArticleAmerican Tourist Miller Matthew Todd Detained in North Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said it had detained a 24-year-old American tourist earlier in April for what it said was "a gross violation of its legal order."The announcement was made while U.S....
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