After last night's speech at the Tea Party Convention, Sarah Palin met with Fox News' Chris Wallace today and said that she does think President Obama pals around with terrorists. Wallace asked if she would take back the comment she...

Childhood obesity is an epidemic. Kids today are suffering from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type-2 diabetes because of an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise said first lady Michelle Obama. Type-2 diabetes, Obama said,...

On his show today Glenn Beck said that it was because of slashing taxes on the wealthy and cutting government spending that the US experienced the greatest economic expansion ever. "You probably heard the term the 'roaring twenties....

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Sarah Palin said that the Republican Party has lost its way and that it's up to the tea party movement to get things back on track. "The GOP has some very strong planks in the platform...

At this year's Game Developer's Choice Awards, Vavle's Gabe Newell won the Pioneer Award, and he used the opportunity to share a slide show with the crowd of developers, press, and business people. His message? DRM is not good for business. He ...

Apple has made inroads into the professional market with the iPhone--the company has noted that some Fortune 500 companies have deployed them alongside or even replacing BlackBerrys. Despite this, analysis of app usage suggests that it remains a m...

Netflix has canceled its $1 million contest aimed at finding a better recommendation engine in the wake of a privacy lawsuit settlement. The company informed its users today via the company blog , noting that it had "reached an understanding" wit...

New Zealand's government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestiality, and other illegal conten...

NASA has selected Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. of Gainesville, Fla., to provide civil and environmental design, engineering and other professional services.

NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition.

NASA Television will cover the landing of two current International Space Station crew members and the launch of three upcoming station residents later in March and April.

NASA Television provides a standard digital television channel as a resource for news media.

"Wear clothes that can get dusty... MREs for you to eat, water and Gatorade, that's it... Cameraman will be 'embedded' with the unit...You're going to get dressed up as an Iraqi woman and go through it first... " These are some of my notes from my fi...

I asked for positive uses for Twitter, and I have received. Here are some reader responses: I am so tired of journalists trying to analyze Twitter without really experiencing it first. It is NOT just a place for promoting blog posts - you need to im...

Yesterday, I posted some examples from readers of how they utilize Twitter. We've also looked at how the military is utilizing Twitter and other Web 2.0 technology. But, as we learned in our interview with P.W. Singer , our technology can easily be tur...

The Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) recently released a survey of school district administrators and their policies, practices and perspectives of Web 2.0 in K-12 education. The study reached a representative, random sample of nearly 1,200 distr...

The world's largest publisher of history magazines seeks a smart, energetic midlevel editor. Wide-ranging duties include story editing, copyediting, fact checking, and production of a 6-times-a-year newsstand magazine, working closely with a ...

The Gwinnett Daily Post, a 65,000 a.m. (102,000 Sunday) in suburban Atlanta, currently has two reporting vacancies.

TheStreet.com, a digital financial media company, is seeking a financial/investment editor with online experience to steer distribution with the company's partners, which include the biggest portals as well as niche players.

The Hechinger Report, a new nonprofit news organization that covers education issues nationally and internationally, is looking for a journalist to blog regularly about community colleges. We believe community colleges are important ? after all, ...

Human trafficking, much of it for sexual purposes, is a worldwide phenomenon. It can be found everywhere from Vietnam to the United States . Estimates of its victims run from 4 million to 27 million, which numbers provide a window on how difficult it i...

Riding the Diary Rescue streetcar tonight are vcmvo2, jlms qkw, jennyjem, dopper0189, Alfonso Nevarez, ybruti, and YatPundit in the motorman's chair of the handicap-accessible 400-series Riverfront car on an almost-spring New Orleans evening. Diary Re...

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/8/2010-3/11/2010. Registered Voters. MoE 2.8% (Last week's results in parentheses): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 54 (53) 42 (43) +2 PELOSI: 35 (36) 56 (56) -1 REID: 26 (27) 67 (66) -2 McCONNELL: 20 (2...

After all these months we finally learn the real reason Republicans, to a man, oppose health care reform ... self-esteem: Discuss.

Earlier this week, during Vice President Joe Biden 's trip, Israel made a surprise, seriously ill-timed announcement of a 1,600 home development project to be built in a disputed part of East Jerusalem. Suffice to say, Secretary Of State Hillary Clint...

You'd expect James Carville to be the one that would use Karl Rove 's new memoir as an excuse to remind everyone of a time he won an obscure, near-impossible political campaign, but it's his lifelong sidekick Paul Begala who is doing the honors this ti...

CNN, 3:29pmET: Rick Sanchez has some sad news for you, CNN viewers. Remember Lima the Zebra? No? Well listen, he escaped in Atlanta but now he's dead . Let Rick soothe your soul with this sad report, set to some Salsa music.

Fox & Friends has been highlighting the "War On Textbooks" going on in Texas - a war that continues to rage today . But the Texas Education Agency has introduced a new element into the war - fact-checking.

One of the great mysteries of the Toyota debacle is why Toyota ignored the complaints for so long....

Your credit score will be affected, but by how much?

One of the repeated cri-de-coeurs about the various changes banks have been making in their credit...

One of the notable moments from the meeting with the Greek prime minister yesterday was when...

LAS VEGAS (CN) - Just two weeks after a brutal special session to close Nevada's $900 million budget gap, Nevada was hit with a pair of lawsuits Friday stop it from tapping into $62 million that was collected for a stalled wastewater project.

(CN) - Parents of autistic children failed to prove that the disorder was caused by a mercury-derived compound in childhood vaccines, a special court ruled Friday in three test cases.

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a rule to prevent for-profit mortgage relief providers from collecting advance fees for their services, and other measures intended to protect homeowners facing financial crisis.

(CN) - The 7th Circuit upheld an order barring Cable America from distributing pirated Russian-language satellite TV to 20 apartment complexes in Illinois.

Killer electrons are highly energetic particles trapped in Earth's outer radiation belt.

Scientists found that Mars' atmosphere does not drift away at a steady pace; instead, atmospheric escape occurs in bursts.

As Celestron turns 50 this year, the leading telescope manufacturer remembers its accomplishments and looks forward to the future.

The clusters appear to be moving along a line extending from our solar system toward Centaurus/Hydra, but the direction of this motion is less certain.

Ahead of revelations surrounding the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series operating system, new data from comScore shows the current-generation mobile OS slipping in the rankings.

Open source and cloud-computing start-ups have one thing in common: a tendency to wear their industry trend on their sleeves.

Now that David Airlie's vga_switcheroo has went upstream in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel that provides hybrid graphics support and delayed GPU switching, David went on to look for something new to work on in his downtime when not busy with tasks at Red Hat....

From version 4.1, Chrome will delete the ID token immediately after it is run for the first time - a symbolic step which takes the wind out of critics' sails...

Ever seen the movie Insomnia? In the film, Al Pacino investigates a murder in an Alaskan town, but there is never any night. As it so happens, he arrived during the time where there are six months of daylight. I always wondered if the film would h...

For those of you who are recuperating in a wheelchair to get about, how about adding some zest to your ordinary adventures with the wUnderglow Wheelchair Light? After all, it not only enhances night-time visibility but provides a fun "underglow" effe...

Samsung does not only make computers, LCD and plasma TVs, home theater systems, and a slew of other consumer electronics, they are also pretty adept at the MP3 player market as well, with the R1 and R0 being the latest of such devices to arrive. Thes...

Samsung wants to rock and roll with their own eBook reader as well which they have dubbed the E6 eReader (how convenient). It will still take some time to see just whether this market is big enough to support so many players, as eBook readers don't s...

We began the week with Oscar fever, and we ended it in a big ol' tickle fight with salty sailors and substance-abusing slut babies. More >>

Because it's a silly, chilly Friday, let's have a silly and slightly chilling CotD, shall we? This one's from an American Idol recap , so many of you have probably not read it. But this comment needs...

On his popular radio program today, the beloved entertainer Rush Limbaugh once again endorsed our little Gay Economics Web Journal More >>

Slate blogger and union-buster Mickey Kaus is running for Senate in California. It's kind of a gag--he doesn't expect to win. But we'd like to make it a realistic experience for Mickey, and we need you...

Jeff Jaffe is a controversial figure in some open source circles for his support of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal.

T-shirts, hats, mugs, stickers and some baby onesies at the new Linux.com store designed to reflect open source geek culture.

Simon Phipps says as director he'll revitalize the Open Source Initiative.

Another big Web site decides to walk away from MySQL for Cassandra.

I appear on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Friday, March 12th at 8:15 p.m . Karl Rove told the BBC about waterboarding and about how proud he is of the practice. I have every intention of tearing into this armchair warrior on the program t...

I appear on MSNBC's Ed Schultz Show on Friday, March 12th at 6 p.m. e.t. As the fight continues regarding health insurance reform, will the Democrats step up and finish what they started or will they cave to the Republicans in the room. This should be...

I appear on CNN on Monday, March 8th. It seems that President Obama has changed his mind regarding where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be charged. He originally stated that he would be charged in a civilian courtroom. Now, after pressure from Republi...

I appear on Ed Schultz Radio Show on Friday, March 5th at 12:30 p.m. e.t. It appears that President Obama may have decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military tribunal rather than in a civilian courtroom. This is a huge mistake. This should...

When Gil Kerlikowske was the Seattle Police Chief the city implemented a policy of defacto decriminalization of marijuana. Basically, unless you were flagrant about using or selling pot, you weren't going to get into any trouble. But now that Kerlikows...

Every Friday some people, politicians, corporations and government bureaucracies, slip out news they don't want people to pay attention to. The assumption is that most people aren't paying attention on Friday. That's true for most, but not me.

The misguided animosity directed towards our longtime US ally has always perplexed me. The French supported the American War of Independence and fought alongside us in almost every war since. But that doesn't stop Americans, most of whom have never bee...

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman takes a stab at disproving three of the most popularly believed myths about Obama's health care reform.

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan -- look at that hair, he's the DoppelGA-pper -- is hailed as the Republican Party's new ideas guy. As top conservative strategist Frank Luntz told me for my latest magazine story: "Paul Ryan is offering policy alternatives so...

The New York Times is reporting that six Democratic senators -- Tom Carper, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Mark Warner and Jim Webb -- are working to blow up Obama's top education reform: Ending the corporate profiteering on government loans...

Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic from Heidi Montag

Edmonton, Canada, water consumption during gold medal hockey match. Or: The nation that roots together, flushes together.

Space physicists have identified the impact of the Sun on Mars' atmosphere. The scientists report that Mars is constantly losing part of its atmosphere to space. The new study shows that pressure from solar wind pulses is a significant contributor to M...

New research suggests why kids under 3 donat learn from video

Science Talent Search will soon announce winners

Attosecond pulses of light could open electronsa fast-paced world

In the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen finds himself stuck in line next to a man pontificating about the scholar Marshall McLuhan. Unable to stand it, Allen interrupts and tells the man he's wrong. The pedant replies that he's a professor who teaches on...

After more than 200 years, Congress has finally forced America to confront the question: Is it gay for one dude to tickle another dude? Freshman Rep. Eric Massa resigned Monday amid claims that he sexually harassed junior male aides. Appearing on Gle...

The car of NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski flipped over and crashed Sunday after another driver, Carl Edwards, bumped him during the Sprint Cup race in Atlanta. (Watch the video here.) Edwards admitted it was retaliation for a similar bump from Keselow...

As the health care reform debate enters the home stretch, Slate's crack research and development team is rolling out the Whipometer, a highly sensitive new instrument to measure the bill's chances of passage (which vary by the hour). Check here regul...

Salon's Glenn Greenwald made some pretty salient observations about the label "terrorism" in his Friday column: Terrorism is simultaneously the single most meaningless and most manipulated word in the American political lexicon.A The term now has virt...

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) announced today that he would not seek reelection - just days before Indiana's Friday deadline for the 4,500 signatures required for candidacy in the race. As TPM reports: R.J. Gerard, communications director for the Indiana ...

There was a bit of a brouhaha yesterday when Clerks director Kevin Smith was told by Southwest Airlines that he was too big to fly in a single seat. The details are available for anyone interested enough to type "kevin smith" and "southwest" into Googl...

Handing terror suspects over to military tribunals represents a major expansion of executive power, and a subtraction of power from the judiciary. To justify this shift, advocates of military tribunals need to explain how the judicial branch is unable ...

03/10/2010 The SPLC Mississippi Youth Justice Project and other civil rights and mental health advocates sued the state of Mississippi today in an effort to improve ...

03/07/2010 On the eve of the 45th anniversary of the aBloody Sundaya march that galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act, a congressional delegation led by U.S. ...

03/02/2010 The number of extremist groups in the United States exploded in 2009 as militias and other groups steeped in wild, antigovernment conspiracy theories expl...

02/18/2010 Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, most of which involved individuals wi...

Ambers tries to make sense of a confusing week. On the timing: This morning, the majority whip, James Clyburn, said that the House will vote within the next ten days. Yesterday, the majority leader, Steny Hoyer, said he expected a... ...

Mike Crowley wonders which presidential contender would be in the best interest of the US: [A] reason Obama might be pulling for Allawi is his wariness towards Iran. On a visit to Iraq last December, I heard one prominent Sunni...

A swan swims at Lake Toepper (Toeppersee) in the western German city of Duisburg on March 11, 2010. Small signs of the approaching spring can be seen in many parts of Germany, despite continuing cold weather. By Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images. ...

E.D. Kain wants me to spend more time on the subject because he thinks "this issue rests at the heart of what went wrong with conservatism." Italics his. An excerpt from his larger argument: Sprawl is a result of massive...

T he new Obama Fed is going to be very dovish when it comes to fighting future inflation and defending the value of the dollar. The president has nominated Janet Yellen to be vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Ms. Yellen is a distinguished economist wh...

T he new Obama Fed is going to be very dovish when it comes to fighting future inflation and defending the value of the dollar. The president has nominated Janet Yellen to be vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Ms. Yellen is a distinguished economist wh...

R ecently my colleague Jay Nordlinger wrote about a new edition of the Federalist Papers that comes equipped with a disclaimer for unwary readers: This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written t...

S hortly before the February 25 health-care summit, President Obama unveiled his proposal for comprehensive reform, which was broadly similar to the Senate legislation that won approval on Christmas Eve but also borrowed some ideas from the House bill ...

Things are looking up on the healthcare front: House leaders laid plans to hold what Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a "historic" vote on health care as soon as late next week, aides said Friday, while President Obama pushed back an upcoming trip to Asia ...

Bruce Bartlett isn't impressed with the budgetary implications of eliminating earmarks: It's obviously true that earmarks are not a significant cause of rising federal spending; eliminating all of them will save at most one percent of the budget. Bru...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade--call it the Ponzi Era--has been no different, except for the gargantuan scale of white-collar crime. A vast ...

So why did Lehman Brothers collapse? A 2,000-page bank examiner's report released yesterday places a lot of the blame on plain old fraud: The examiner, Anton R. Valukas, also for the first time, laid out what the report characterized as "materially mi...

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday moderated a group of mostly liberal voices to sympathize with Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy and, at times, former Representative Eric Massa. Speaking of the politician who spent the week t...

Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accuses the Times of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and accuses the network of having "overturned standards of fai...

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, on Friday's Today show, remarked how similar the Eric Massa case was to the Mark Foley sex scandal in 2006, and back then Scarborough went with Matt Lauer's premise that Hastert should be "Thrown under the bus." However when NB...

Liberal comedian Jon Stewart featured a rare conservative voice on Tuesday's Daily Show, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen. As he often does during the occasions he talks to right-leaning guests, Stewart turned combative, attacking Thiessen for "l...

Los Angeles Times At the end of the 2008 presidential campaign, the Huffington Post was treating Mayhill Fowler as a star, paying expenses that one month reached $15,000. "I was becoming more than a prima donna," she writes in her self-published...

paidContent.org At ABCNews.com, "no one is talking about putting content behind a paywall and no one is talking about making everything free," says Paul Slavin . The digital division senior veep says he'd like to have "the basic answer about the...

Variety.com "For one thing, we would get into a Roger Ailes argument and neither of us would like that," writes Peter Bart . "Murdoch, through Ailes, a former Nixon aide, has effectively polarized the political dialogue in this country, and Ailes knows...

Emergency vehicles like police cars and ambulances, which often travel at high speeds, are loaded with computers, radios, GPS systems and other electronics. The New York Times wonders whether the first responders are distracted while they are behind th...

Republicans on Thursday pushed the House ethics committee to look into whether Democratic leaders responded appropriately to complaints of misconduct by then-Rep. Eric Massa, an inquiry that could become an election-year embarrassment for Democrats.

In recent years, Maryland has raised its sales tax, income tax, corporate tax and cigarette tax; added a surcharge called the "millionaires' tax"; and created taxes on electronic bingo, tip jars and even water and septic systems -- the "flush tax."

A year ago, members of the Congressional Black Caucus openly wept at Barack Obama's inauguration. Slowly, that euphoria has given way to frustration that his administration has not done more for black America. Questions about how to elect him have bee...

President Obama unveiled plans Thursday to double U.S. exports over the next five years in hopes of spurring job growth, an ambitious goal that may rekindle the battle over free-trade policy.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children. The pontiff is als...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakth...

Congressional Republicans named six conservative opponents of tax increases to President Obama's debt commission Friday, and the panel now only awaits House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's picks before it can get started. The panel's recommendations, which ar...

House Democrats plan to tack a major reform of the nation's student loan system onto the health care overhaul bill, a move that could help corral votes in the House but might make the bill's passage more complicated in the Senate. House Speaker Nancy...

"I Wouldn't Vote For Sarah Palin If She Was The Only Candidate!" Jesse Ventura pt.3 moxnews.com March 08, 2010 CNN From: MoxNewsDotCom Views: 1219 35 ratings Time: 10:27 More in News & Politics

To Sarah Palin and The NAR The New Apostolic Reformation is a religious movement of elites and regular people who ascribe to such things as geographic maps citing where demons reside and among NAR adherents, is Sarah Palin. Researcher Rachel Tabachn...

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Harry Markopolos, March 8, 2010 synopsis: The man who brought down Bernie Madoff sits down with Jon to discuss his new book about the scandal. jon john stewart the daily show Oliver talk comedy central dailyshow oba...

The New York Times lends more than 2,000 words to console laughingstock former WH social secretary Desiree Rogers. Bring a Kleenex to the pity party: The rise and fall of DesirA(c)e Rogers, the glamorous Harvard-educated corporate executive who brought...

"Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House..."

The No-mentum is getting to the White House. News is breaking out all over that President Obama will be delaying his trip to Asia from Thursday to March 21. It's also being reported that the First Lady and his daughters, who had planned to accompany hi...

This one hits close to home. I grew up in Absecon, New Jersey and attended Holy Spirit High School. Our sports teams competed against Buena High School, which al Qaeda-linked radical Sharif Mobley graduated from before moving to Yemen -- where he was r...

A dozen ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, just east of Sweden. The well-preserved ships are hundreds of years old. The oldest wreck may date back 800 years.

The first numbers that come to mind when thinking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland might be how much money the movie is raking in at the box office. But mathematicians say the books are full of algebraic lessons -- such as why a raven is like a w...

By Eyder Peralta The topic of profile pictures is one often talked about around our cubes here at work, especially Twitter avatars. They're so small (so mysterious) that what a person looks like on Twitter is often very different from what they look l...

From switching to energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances, to collecting rainwater and installing photovoltaic panels, how are experts making buildings that use less energy and generate less waste? Ira Flatow and guests explore the latest in green...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

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Hunch , a New York City-based startup founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and SiteAdvisor founder/angel investor Chris Dixon, has raised $10 million in funding for its questions and recommendations site. Nearly a year ago, Ms. Fake revealed her ...

Amid class-action lawsuits over privacy and subsequent FTC inquiries, Netflix announced today that it will not be pursuing the next Netflix Prize .For more than three years, individuals competed to win the $1 million Netflix Prize , in the process impr...

Prof. Michael Schudson and Leonard Downie, former executive editor of The Washington Post, and both authors of the report "The Reconstruction of American Journalism," recently discussed the future of journalism on University of California Television.

Prof. James B. Stewart's coverage of the financial meltdown of 2008 is among the finalists for this year's National Magazine Awards, the American Society of Magazine Editors announced yesterday.

Janis Krums, the non-journalist who sent out the most famous tweet on the January 2009 plane landing in the Hudson, visited the Columbia Journalism School on Tuesday to reflect upon his quick rise to social media stardom.

This semester, students in Prof. Ari Goldman's seminar have covered religion stories in New York City, but for the next two weeks, the class will be reporting from Israel and Jordan.

Wrapping up fashion week in Paris with an iceberg, parties and a wake.

Greg Monroe had 23 points and 13 rebounds, and No. 22 Georgetown beat Marquette in a 80-57 victory that sent the Hoyas to the Big East title game for the third time in four years.

Despite some political baggage, the former House speaker has built himself into a one-man industry, to renewed attention among conservatives.

A federal commission has determined that the Department of Education discriminated against the principal of an Arabic-language public school in Brooklyn.

The Bedell case is starting to focus public attention on what has been happening in California, where Bedell got his amedicinea and posted bizarre Internet commentaries about the virtues of dope.

Are the Obama Administrationas actions putting Americans at increased risk of a terrorist attack? Keep America Safe and its board members argue that it is.

by James C. McKinley Jr. AUSTIN, Tex. - After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the sup...

by Glenn Greenwald A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical)A scam perpetrated byA Congressional Democrats:A A all year long, they insisted that the White House and a majority ofA Democratic Senators vigor...

by Bob Egelko The federal court that touched off a furor in 2002 by declaring the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion took another look at the issue Thursday and said the phrase invokes patrio...

by Abdu Rahman and Dahr Jamail BAGHDADA - Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed mo...

Fourteen-year-olds frequently accuse their parents of moral dereliction; parents do not frequently respond by selling their house and donating half the proceeds to villagers in Ghana. But such was the response of Kevin and Joan Salwen, of Atlanta, to t...

The greatest singers, from Callas to Sinatra, make words and music indivisible; even as the voice envelops you, the lyric is etched into your mind. The Canadian baritone Gerald Finley has a similar gift. Partly it's a matter of diction: Finley makes su...

paragraph class="noindent">Tom Colicchio closed his Craftsteak flagship in New York earlier this fall and vowed to make its revamp personal: he'd be there, behind the stove, doing what he loves to do. The other night, a waiter confirmed that Colicchio ...

The fact that "Green Zone" begins with a bombing raid should come as no surprise, given that the director is Paul Greengrass. He made two of the "Bourne" films and "United 93," and his attitude to the average viewer remains that of a salad . . .

Across the globe, citizens are making their anger with their governments felt.

America is slipping from the top spots on more than one global list.

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WASHINGTON -- NASA today announced its founding partnership of Launch, an initiative to identify, showcase and support innovative approaches to sustainability challenges through a series of forums. The first forum, "Launch: Water," will take place at N...

An infographic breaking into Digg's Top 10 this weekend posed the question: "Are you obsessed with your cell phone?" The answer to that is pretty obvious, considering that the infographic also states that 32 percent of men and 23 percent of women can't...

It's actually called a Hoverpod, but whatever, it's a Hovercraft. How well does it work considering it costs less than $50? Who knows, but here's what the manufacturer has to say about it. Just like the real thing, the Hoverpod slides around the place ...

If incumbents are running scared, what does that mean for the phenomenon of the incumbency effect?

Ari Melber explains why Obama has been so ineffectual at change while in office.

At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.

The visual art of the Black Atlantic explores an ambivalence that exceeds double consciousness.

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