Cover Story | Inside the GOP's final push for the White House: As Republicans try to fire up the grassroots, many of those activists find more motivation in opposing a failed president than in supporting the Republican nominee
Politics |
Republicans hope to counter months of relentless attacks against
Mitt Romney's character by presenting their candidate as a likable
family man
Congress |
Unless the House and the Senate can iron out their differences by
the end of the year, a series of automatic tax hikes and spending
cuts could bring the…
Healthcare |
A ground-level look at charity clinics throughout the United States
finds a thriving, but often ignored, subsection of American
healthcare
Healthcare |
By bus, train, and car this summer, I visited medical clinics in a
dozen cities, then walked the neighborhoods around the clinics. The
first stop was small -
Healthcare |
I moved to Charlotte in 2007. The job market boomed. People moved
there from around the country, energizing the city. The influx of
new residents meant that…
Missile drama When the General Conference of the International
Atomic Energy Agency opens its five-day meetings on Sept. 17,
nonproliferation experts are…
Died Retired pastor James (Jim) Carr, 60, died Aug. 20 after an
unidentified assailant shot him while breaking into Carr's
Greenville, N.C., home. Carr, who…
'It is very rare that I come to an event where I'm like the fifth
or sixth most interesting person.' President Barack Obama, at an
August fundraising event in…
Bart in abundance One reason among many the United States Postal
Service has a hard time breaking even: It overrates its customers'
love for
The Simpsons
, the…
Movies |
What do you get when you put brilliant actors, authentic Tunisian
sets, and a hero of the Christian faith in the hands of a
consistently under-performing…
Movies |
Moviegoers packed the final pre-release showing of
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- a teenager's coming-of-age story set in 1990s Pittsburgh.
Adolescents and…
