Cover Story | The United States has had presidents from unorthodox religious groups before, and after the election it will again: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama court religious voters though both come from traditions far from Christian orthodoxy
Cover Story | Romney hopes Jews, usually an overwhelmingly Democratic constituency, will enter voting booths in November with the Middle East in mind. The prime minister of Israel hopes so too
Cover Story | Asian-Americans could be key voters in a close election, and they've proven to be open to Republican ideas. But Mitt Romney will have to make an effort to get their votes
Cover Story | Millennials and African-Americans, two groups hardest hit by Obama-era recession and unemployment, are (mostly) sticking with the president
North Korea |
For the first North Korean to receive asylum in the United States
under a 2004 human-rights law, a life of freedom comes through
danger and cost, attended by…
Looking Ahead |
Al-Qaeda on trial Defendants accused of planning the 9/11
terrorist attacks will face a U.S. military commission in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for another…
Human Race |
Died Eugene Genovese, 82, esteemed Civil War and slavery historian
who penned
Roll, Jordan, Roll
, died Sept. 26. A former “avowed Marxist,” Genovese and his…
Bitten but unbeaten Rather than memorize a description or take a
picture, a hiker in Western Massachusetts tracked down and captured
the snake that had just…
Movies |
Just in time for Halloween on the heels of
Paranorman
and
Hotel Transylvania
, Tim Burton is back with a remake of his 1984 short film,
Frankenweenie
. One of two…
Television |
Keen powers of deduction, razor-sharp wit, and fine British
sensibilities—just a few reasons Sherlock Holmes became a household
name, and why CBS hopes its…
Movies |
Two years ago director Davis Guggenheim’s documentary
Waiting for “Superman”
stirred the public education pot and drew the ire of teachers
unions…
