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Philip Kennicott wrote an interesting review of the new PBS program “Ten Buildings that Changed America” [“ Top 10 list fails to impress ,” Style, May 10]. But I have one quibble from a ...

DANIEL WERFEL , whom President Obama tapped on Thursday to lead the Internal Revenue Service, has a record of shaking up stolid federal bureaucracies. When he gets to his new agency, he ...

STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resig...

REPUBLICANS AND conservative media obsessed with what they regard as the Obama administration’s scandalous coverup of the nature of the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, las...

THE OBAMA administration’s political and legal authority to wage war against al-Qaeda has steadily eroded. Both liberal and conservative members of Congress have challenged the administr...

The hundred pages of Benghazi e-mails released this week tell us almost nothing about how four Americans came to die so tragically in that Libyan city. But they are a case study in why n...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand A fish restaurant in New Zealand seemed an odd place to discuss a war that took place several thousand miles away and several decades ago, but there we were: Sea ...

East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, also known as the Stasi, posed a major challenge during my three-year stint as an attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn during the 1960s. Detect...

A t the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a few days since two administration scandals...

Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It’s a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph...

There are three fallacies and two dangers at the heart of Mitt Romney’s tax policy. Romney has been appropriately chided for dangling the promise of lower rates — with unpleasant details...

I’ve written variations of this column a couple of times over the past 20 years, but certain occasions bear revisiting — and surely the disappearance of a friend is one. Dail Dinwiddie w...

For one hour on Sunday afternoon, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philippe Reines was behaving most undiplomatically . He had been engaged in a testy e-mail exchange with a journalis...

Which is the more redistributionist of our two parties? In recent decades, as Republicans have devoted themselves with laser-like intensity to redistributing America’s wealth and income ...

The making of your clothes might have resulted in death.

Latest effort to improve conditions are just token remedies.

Same-sex couples are asking for responsibilities as much as rights.

How did tax returns of a group opposed to gay marriage get leaked to political opponents?

Yoga can clearly be practiced in harmony with any religion or with no religion.

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scan...

Can new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif succeed? That will depend largely on whether he has the strength of will to resist the military and to confront radical Islamists. There is reason for ...

A look at the data suggests that at graduation ceremonies on U.S. college and university campuses, it's liberals only. We have once again entered the college commencement season, which me...

The new science of spending points to a surprising conclusion: How we use our money may matter as much or more than how much of it we've got. Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning to ...

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a space alien in a full-body leotard and underpants. My nomination for American hero of the 20th century is someone who lived half his life in disguise...

Says being an "old mom" of a young baby makes every moment with her child even more precious

Contributor Ben Stein believes that former President Reagan had the right idea for potential nuclear threats from countries such as North Korea and Iran.

If religion is all-encompassing, then can baseball provide a path to spirituality, a road to God? Writer Tom Oliphant believes so.

New Republic senior editor Timothy Noah believes that income inequality is getting worse in the United States, making it more difficult for Americans to fulfill the American Dream.

Says our nation has been attacked by partisanship, ideological rigidity, and lack of courage over sequester

Your Career: It’s hard to resist an offer of saving the Gulf at $40 an hour plus room and board. But beware of scammers.

Cyber-thieves are now in the online auto business. Their bogus websites offer unbelievable deals – prices that are way below market value – on repossessed vehicles.

For taxpayers awaiting a return on their investment in General Motors, it may be coming soon, if faith is to be placed in the struggling automaker's first quarterly profit in almost thre...

The Ford Fusion Hybrid is the best hybrid model in the U.S. market, according to our reviewer. It is the best in the U.S. in part because it is the best for the U.S.

Hadfield just spent 146 days up at the International Space Station, during which time he performed rock concerts and shared his dazzling photographs with nearly a million Twitter followers.

In this Q&A, author Elliott Holt discusses her six favorite novels about expatriates. She also talks about what it's like to be in your 20s, and the importance of travel and exploration.

Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times . They discuss controversial IRS audit...

From scandals involving the IRS, to spirited Benghazi hearings, it's been a tough week for the Obama administration. But will this bad week really have further political fallout? Guest ho...

Songs, like all art, can take on a life of their own once they are thrust into the public domain. Their meanings can shift substantially, something commentator Alva Noë experienced recent...

IRS agents just wanted to be 'more efficient in their workload selection.'

Houston's mayor—an openly gay Democrat friendly to business—talks about why her city is the country's fastest growing and most diverse.

The Greek philosopher knew nothing of social media. He did know a thing or two about relationships.

Japan's gains from monetary policy will be fleeting without major economic reform.

The secrets of reform success include liberal chartering rules and freedom from teacher tenure.

Today’s X-Prize winners resemble slow-moving dinosaurs when you think of the accelerating challenges facing the real world of the coming generation.

Despite market records, negativity and doubt persist. Here are the reasons to stay fully invested, writes Jeff Reeves.

It will be difficult for the social network to combat valuation worries, writes Mark Hulbert.

The IRS is about to balloon to accommodate new responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act, here are key issues to consider, writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

As the world tightens its grip on pay at big banks, the U.S. approach continues its ‘anything goes’ method.

Tune in to financial TV, read financial news, listen to financial radio and most of what you watch, read and hear is noise. Cable TV increased the number of channels from several to hundr...

By Douglas Lindholm

Recently, I encountered four minor news items, four unrelated vignettes, mostly trivial in and of themselves, yet important in their implications and ramifications.

The Genetic Literacy Project reports that the ongoing conflict between Israel and its neighbors over the origins of the ?Jewish people? has surfaced again as an issue of great controversy...

Watching the Benghazi hearings last week, it was easy to understand why Americans feel more disconnected from the political process than ever before and trust in government is at near his...

Far reaching trade pacts make a mockery of the democratic process.

Scandals provide good fodder for the GOP, but it can't forget about fixing unemployment.

President Obama's burgeoning problems affect more than this week’s three scandals.

Republicans are preparing to take the debt ceiling hostage…again.

The recent slew of scandals reveals an administration either incompetent or malicious.

OUR OPINION: Legislators should not divert money from designated accounts

OUR OPINION: Ban Internet cafes, but the bigger issue is a Tallahassee culture of raking in cash from public service

OUR OPINION: Legislators must enforce transparency laws

OUR OPINION: Democracy still imperiled in post-Chávez Venezuela

OUR OPINION: Miami’s members of Congress have an opportunity to show Cuban blogger democracy’s grace

Florida’s Democratic chairman attacked Gov. Scott over his teacher pay promise. Unfortunately, her math didn’t make sense.

While Americans argue over background checks and the like, tech changes could render firearm laws — and firearm manufacturers — irrelevant.

How did my mother raise eight of us on $105 a week? Liver sausage sandwiches and unselfish love.

The kids have found a haven in Zanmi Beni Children’s Home (‘Blessed Friends’ in Creole).

More than 1,800 bills were filed during this year’s state legislative session, ranging from teacher pay raises to the contentious debate over Medicaid expansion.

The Florida Panthers picked up a $4.2 million bauble this week, a new digital scoreboard, courtesy of the taxpayers. Not that taxpayers had any say in the deal.

Tallahassee has long resonated with talk about our precious, precious school children. Except lately the allusion has become quite literal.

Old (slightly crabby) Jim Morgan, who races more animals on a weekend than most trainers run over a lifetime, could be the last, best hope for Florida’s faltering parimutuel industry.

Oceana is a misnomer, a small town at the confluence of the Clear Fork and Laurel Fork rivers in the mountains of southern West Virginia, some 400 miles from the nearest ocean. Lately, lo...

On Thursday, Maryland became the sixth state in the past six years to abolish capital punishment. Eighteen states have now done away with the death penalty. Florida, of course, is not amo...

Don't look now, but while many voters have barely started digesting the slugfests for governor and Congress that will be over in less than four weeks, the 2012 presidential campaign is we...

Democratic congressional candidate Rudolph ``Rudy'' Moise has come up with a novel strategy to stand out in a crowded field of nine campaign rivals:

After months and months of pounding by U.S. Senate rival Marco Rubio, Gov. Charlie Crist caught a break.

<span class="italic">If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‘Why the hell not?’</span>

In her mind’s eye, Elsa Morejón looks from Miami at her beloved island and worries that what ails Cuba will not be cured solely with democracy. What ails Cuba, the humble Bapt...

It was born in the gritty urban realism of exile, circa 1970s. El Super, a low-budget production by Cuban exiles, was the little film that could. It would break stereotypes by embracing t...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z trotted around their mothers in Havana for the couple’s fifth anniversary, posing with cute Cuban schoolchildren, dining at a famous paladar — the roy...

Forty questions in 80 days.

It was an evening class in Kendall that opened my weary mind after a day’s work to why societies are what they are and do what they do — the type of preparation every journa...

The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world’s leading science cities, and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the ...

I’ve read with great attention President Barack Obama’s article in The Miami Herald earlier this week on how to improve U.S. relations with Latin America. It was pretty disa...

Forget all the headlines about immigration, security and drug issues during President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico last week: the most important (and least noticed) result of his t...

Despite a lot of upbeat talk about upgrading U.S.-Mexican economic relations, there will be one big issue that will be off the table during President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico...

While many of us were focused on the Boston bombings, Venezuela’s dubious elections and North Korea’s war noises in recent weeks, the world’s biggest nations took a p...

Well, this is a fine mess.

It should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.

Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West.

If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black.

Boom.

According to a recent newspaper article that I carefully clipped out and then lost but I remember the gist of, traffic gridlock in the United States is very bad. It's getting to the point...

If you're one of the millions of people planning to travel by air this summer, here's some important information from the Association of Commercial Airlines:

Recently, one of our local TV news shows in Miami did a special investigative report on -- I swear -- brassiere sizes. The station promoted this report relentlessly for several days. Ever...

I received a letter from a reader named Dick Demers, who relates a shocking story: It seems Dick and his wife had driven a long distance to visit his wife's sister. To refresh himself, Di...

I can't shop with my wife. The problem is that she almost never has a clear objective. I ALWAYS have a clear objective. Without a clear objective, you're just wandering randomly around a ...

Mando is moving to Sesame Street this fall. Did you get the announcement?

If the Food Network is hunting for its No. 1 fan, I suggest executives stop at my house to interview The Hubby. He watches more of its programs than anything else on TV, including reruns ...

One of the strangest scenes to come out of the Boston Marathon bombings is the discomfiting image of an angry Zubeidat Tsarnaev defending her two sons, the dead and the living.

That red and black wrap-around dress in my closet? Paid $9.01, taxes included, a victory of timing, perseverance and the clever matching of coupon to clearance sale. Original price: $79.9...

Amid the bedlam, terror and despair, we must focus on this. We must never forget this: Goodness still abounds. Courage is plentiful. People can be, and often are, heroes.

Many in their 20s want the freedom to work when and where they want.

Medical moms tread a delicate line as they seek to provide care to both patients and family.

Don’t try to rework your work/life equilibrium in a single stroke, advise experts. Measured shifts in approach can results in big payoffs over time.

A recent study suggests most of us lucky enough to have jobs feel like we’re overburdened. Partnering with your boss can help you figure out a solution.

A huge majority of American workers cite workplace stress, according to the 2013 Work Stress Survey/

Good for America, good for the GOP If President Barack Obama delivers on his promise to sign meaningful immigration legislation in his second term, it could be because he wisely stayed ou...

Or does no kept promise go unpunished? Early in 2011, Candidate Rahm Emanuel warned Chicagoans that their City Hall had to fix its finances or risk entering into eternal rest. The distanc...

If it makes me a media lackey or a tail-wagging lap dog for President Barack Obama to hold out for, you know, actual evidence that he had anything to do with the various and glaring misbe...

Thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-three.

When the president of All Hallows College in Ireland saw the regal man on the framed canvas, he knew the portrait buried in a Dublin basement should head home to Chicago.

The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration — the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives — ...

I've got a feeling that in some weird, alternate universe, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is making a decent living playing hide-the-pea.

'Pedal pushers' aren't even the worst thing men wear to work now Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade is leading millions of American men along the path of career destruction.

President is Chicago politician, not Narnia faun Dogged by scandal, and with his press secretary presumably now curled up in the fetal position and breathing into a brown paper bag, it's ...

One subject that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel never touches involves a legendary political figure:

America's Cup Italian team sets demands Ellison's Oracle team was flying high when it was announced in 2010 that the Cup would be staged in the perfect blue amphitheater of San Francisco...

Ride through SF mourns bicycle fatalities The Ride of Silence was a slow, 12 1/2-mile roll through the city's neighborhoods by 30 local bike riders. Devon Warner, one of the organizers, ...

Smaller boats wiser for America's Cup The entertainment stage is already up, the first races are scheduled in seven weeks, and, most importantly, the money has been spent. While this wee...

Soccer isn't Coastal Commission's field In one of those head-slapping San Francisco moments, the proposal to improve the Beach Chalet soccer fields is taking another spin on the politica...

Tenderloin police captain moving on Tenderloin police captain moving on Along the way he's managed a remarkable balancing act, earning the respect of both the local business owners and t...

Niners' stadium will carry Levi's tag The naming rights agreement - which will help the Niners pay for their $1.2 billion stadium, scheduled to open for the 2014 season - was announced W...

S.F.-China development deal falls apart A $1.7 billion deal between Lennar Corp. and a pair of Chinese government entities to construct 12,500 homes on the former Hunters Point Naval Shi...

Bay Bridge inspections: busted bolts Toll Bridge Program Manager Tony Anziano said engineers are "pretty confident" the problem with the bolts is not a design issue or a construction pro...

Foie gras ban in jeopardy, activists say Animal-rights activists and other goose lovers think a state senator is laying tracks to repeal the state's foie gras ban - a suspicion she's doi...

Few are riding Oakland-South S.F. ferry [...] in an effort to boost ridership, the ferry operator - the Water Emergency Transportation Authority - wants to spend another $230,000 to add ...

Oakland resident Beth Maher arrived home around 10 p.m. one day last week to find her husband and their three kids standing outside in the yard. They had called 911 about 90 minutes earli...

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan launched her crime initiative last fall and has been criticized for failing to discuss the details in public. It's true. There is no map that identifies the bounda...

Oakland is the Bay Area city that grabs headlines for officer-involved shootings, but is by no means the only city dealing with this kind of trouble Since May 6, there have been five offi...

On Friday, when seniors of the Oakland School for the Arts march across the stage at the Fox Theater to receive their diplomas, many of them will be headed to some of the most prestigious...

A joint effort between Oakland police and federal law enforcement agents has created a reverse rapture on the streets of Oakland. Sixty of the city's worst criminals slowly but surely van...

Republicans lawmakers say the scandal over Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative groups raises new doubts about President Obama’s health-insurance reform law.

Steve Jobs widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, is emerging as a education philanthropist and immigration reform campaigner. Since her husband, Steve Jobs, passed on, Mrs. Powell Jobs has joined ...

Steven Miller, who resigned as acting IRS head this week, argued that the extra scrutiny for conservative groups amounted to ‘foolish mistakes.’ House Republicans see some problems reach...

The Obama administration isn't the first to face criticism of using the Internal Revenue Service as a political hit squad. Since the advent of the federal income tax about a century ago,...

The acting IRS chief lost his job Wednesday because of the tea party investigation, and Republican leaders want more. But the scandal really points to an IRS in over its head, some exper...

When partisanship blankets Washington and gridlock reigns, senators say that personal relationships across the aisle are a fundamental element of how the chamber works.

Are some senators too old? Have they lost the mental acuity and physical stamina needed to fulfill their duties? “That's a big problem,” says Don Ritchie, the Senate historian.

The complex web of Senate rules allows for more productivity than most Americans understand, and also grants dramatic amounts of power to single dissenters. What nine exiting senators thi...

Departing senators say legislative history is replete  with more intense periods of anger and violence.

NBC’s Ken Strickland sat down with nine senators departing the upper chamber this year. A look at the legislative lives of Chris Dodd, Sam Brownback, Bob Bennett, Evan Bayh, Jim Bunning,...

Obama tries to pivot from a trio of controversies, but the IRS scandal is sticking around. Work on immigration reform continues. L.A. gets a new mayor. Plus, Andy gets a summer job.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa has issued a subpoena to depose the ambassador charged with leading the review of the attack in Benghazi that killed ...

The 2016 notebook includes notes, quotes, and newsworthy tidbits of what potential presidential candidates are doing and have done that could be significant to 2016. It will run occasiona...

Addressing graduates at a historically black college in Maryland Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama urged students to “be an example of excellence to the next generation” in a ...

It hasn’t been a fun week in the West Wing, but President Barack Obama insisted Friday that his focus remains on job creation despite Washington’s tendency to get “distr...

A group of hikers was marching in a parade in a small Virginia town.

Investigators of a train collision in Connecticut have ruled out foul play.

The Powerball jackpot Saturday night could be even higher than the record $600 million being advertised, possibly rivaling the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, a Texas Lottery of...

A funeral has been scheduled for Wednesday for a 21-year-old Hofstra University student who was gunned down during a break-in at her apartment near the school's Long Island campus.

An airline official says a US Airways Express flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble.

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- This week's Biotech Stock Mailbag: @adamfeuerstein Will Vical be Feuerstein-R Rule breaker when results come 3rd qtr? yervoy synergy possible tooseekingalpha.com/ar...

TheStreet senior columnist Adam Feuerstein discusses the winners and losers from the research abstracts ahead of the ASCO cancer conference.

CHICAGO (TheStreet) -- Ready, set ... ASCO download! That's what a lot of healthcare investors are doing right now on the web site of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It's ASCO...

HENDERSON, Nev. (TheStreet) -- The Securities and Exchange Commisson is investigating Spectrum Pharmaceuticals over the steep drop in Fusilev sales disclosed in March. Spectrum tucked th...

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- This week's Biotech Stock Mailbag is open for business. @adamfeuerstein SNTA getting hit hard, do you suspect SNTA to respond with a PR/Statement of some sort?Bit h...

Mysterious New Weapon Revealed? OSGEOINT A satellite captured this rare glimpse at a secretive US defense site -- and the bizarre shape of the object on the right has experts salivating....

Kim Involves Kris' Ex in Divorce Case Getty Images Kardashian & Humphries are in the process of settling their divorce -- but what she just threw on the table may change how much he gets...

'Knots Landing' Star Hasn't Aged Getty Images Donna Mills hasn't been in the spotlight much since the famed soap opera ended, but she reappeared at a recent event looking amazing. What s...

Walgreen's Makes Big Announcement Getty Images With 7,890 drugstores throughout the US and Puerto Rico, it's already the nation's largest drug store chain. Now, it's getting bigger. What...

Woman Allegedly Groped TSA Agent NBC2 Most passengers are used to security pat downs. Carol Jean Price had a more confrontational reaction -- and it's led to a battery charge. Awkward in...

Filed under: Movie News , Troublemakers , Videos , Pop-Ed , Lindsay Lohan , TMZ As of Wednesday, Lindsay Lohan is a free woman, but from the looks of her first night out after her house ...

Filed under: Awards , Movie News , TV News , Pop-Ed , Celebenomics With Jo Piazza , Top News We've been assaulted with an onslaught of sub-par awards hosts in the past year. First, Ricky...

Filed under: TV News , Pop-Ed Pop-Ed: I try to be a good wife. I really do. Marriage can be challenging -- it's a lot like learning the dance called the quickstep, in which two people tr...

Filed under: Gut Reactions , TV News , WTF , Pop-Ed Pop-Ed: Nicki Minaj. Fergie. Jessica Simpson. Rihanna. What do they have in common? They're all huge pop stars, and they're all probab...

Filed under: Gut Reactions , TV News , Kim Kardashian , Pop-Ed , Kourtney Kardashian While reality shows have made superstars out of scores of regular people, those aspiring to loftier h...

Yes, gambling is going on all around us, and nobody is shocked to hear about it. That’s why Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature were right to take a big step toward the construction...

Sarah Palin and Chris ChristieThe New Jersey governor risks looking like the narcissist from Wasilla as he drags out the "Will he run?" drama

President Obama greets guests on the tarmac during his arrival at the airport in Seattle Sunday.A Nation writer worries that an "insidious form of racism" explains their criticism of Obam...

Come see me, Lizz Winstead, Sandra Bernhard and others support the besieged and crucial women's healthcare provider

Is the Texas governor too ignorant to know the term is associated with placating and not fighting Adolf Hitler?

President ObamaRon Suskind describes a leader pulled off course by his staff. But we still don't know where Obama wants to take us

In this Nov. 8, 2010 file image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites.Without a shred of...

Are there so few actual Terrorists that the FBI has to recruit them into manufactured attacks?

A few hundred demonstrators protesting against corporations march from nearby Zucotti park to Wall Street, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, in the Manhattan borough of New York.Not just media out...

In this photo released by the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, US hikers Shane Bauer, right, and Josh Fattal, smile, at the Tehran's Mehrabad airport befo...

Does the U.S. ever fight against anyone it didn't recently arm, fund and/or otherwise fortify?

Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate . For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitte...

Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new str...

“ Scandal Jujitsu : How is Obama coping with multiple scandals? By playing them off against one another,” by William Saletan. It’s been a bad week for the White House, with scandals over...

The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just as, with infinite and exquisite ...

A person’s head collides with an object. Unprepared for the impact, the head jerks in a violent whiplash motion. The person collapses, rolling on the ground and holding his head, before ...

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ESPN dropped singer Hank Williams Jr. from its Monday Night Football telecast after he publicly compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler on Monday. Today, the Führer is universally ...

The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just as, with infinite and exquisite ...

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The following is Carol Blue’s afterword to her husband Christopher Hitchens’ book Mortality , out in September from Twelve. Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue

Publisher’s note: These fragmentary jottings, published as the last chapter of Christopher Hitchens’ new book, Mortality , were left unfinished at the time of Hitchens’ death in December...

On Dec. 31, 1995, the phone rang, and I answered. Christopher Hitchens passed away on Dec. 15

SYDNEY—Odd things keep catching my eye here, simply because they look familiar. The small fortress island in the center of Sydney Harbour makes me think of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay;...

For nearly 11 years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been a prisoner in Guantánamo. In 2005, he began to write his memoirs of his time in captivity. His handwritten 466-page manuscript i...

PART THREE: FAMILY In this file photo, U.S. guards escort an unnamed detainee after a "life skills" class for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in 2010.

PART TWO: DISAPPEARED This file photo shows in-processing at Camp X-Ray in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002.

Intro: U.S. Air Force Col. Morris D. Davis was appointed chief prosecutor of Guantánamo’s Office of Military Commissions in September 2005. He assumed the post not long after a wa...

Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate . For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitte...

Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new str...

“ Scandal Jujitsu : How is Obama coping with multiple scandals? By playing them off against one another,” by William Saletan. It’s been a bad week for the White House, with scandals over...

The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just as, with infinite and exquisite ...

A person’s head collides with an object. Unprepared for the impact, the head jerks in a violent whiplash motion. The person collapses, rolling on the ground and holding his head, before ...

Tucked onto page 567 of the Senate’s 844-page immigration reform bill is perhaps its most groundbreaking provision. For the first time, the U.S. government would voluntarily provide a fr...

Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he doesn’t want the Obama administration’s leak prosecutions “ to be his legacy .” But he has also trumpeted the cases—six and counting—in resp...

Let’s not make excuses for the IRS. The agency shouldn’t have subjected conservative groups to special scrutiny. Campaign finance reform groups should have immediately called for hearing...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doubled down over the weekend on her ongoing criticism of Roe v. Wade . Ginsburg’s concern is about backlash: She says that by issuing the rulin...

A little over five years ago, I announced that I was canceling my subscription to the New York Times . My cancellation wasn't in protest of Times coverage of the Middle East, ethnic mino...

Unless you're an ombudsman, it's dang difficult to write about the publication or the company that employs you. First, you've got to worry about getting fired if you write too critically...

Could Wolf Blitzer be any duller than when he anchors The Situation Room for CNN? CNN's Wolf Blitzer

How will Rupert Murdoch's minions—including his son James—wriggle out of this one? Rupert Murdoch's phone-hacking scandal won't go away

The next time you catch a full-of-himself newspaper journalist bitching about bloggers ripping him off or a publisher bellyaching about his intellectual-property rights being violated by...

Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate . For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitte...

Every week, Eaton scours the Internet to bring you the top five industry headlines of the moment. This week, American Express confirmed its website was hacked, RIM announced a new str...

“ Scandal Jujitsu : How is Obama coping with multiple scandals? By playing them off against one another,” by William Saletan. It’s been a bad week for the White House, with scandals over...

The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just as, with infinite and exquisite ...

A person’s head collides with an object. Unprepared for the impact, the head jerks in a violent whiplash motion. The person collapses, rolling on the ground and holding his head, before ...

Green Street Advisors' Mike Kirby likes Equity Residential, Taubman Centers and Vornado Realty Trust. And get ready for single-home REITS.

A veteran investor expects a wave of bottom-up consolidation to provide plenty of opportunities for investors.

An interview with Paul Wick, portfolio manager, Columbia Seligman Communications & Information fund.

Scott Minerd, the chief investment officer of Guggenheim Partners, sees a 10% drop in the stock market, followed by a 10-to-15-year period of U.S. prosperity.

Morgan Stanley equity strategist Adam Parker combines quantitative and fundamental analysis to identify stocks that could outperform. Seeking China exposure and dividend growth.

DirecTV is weighing a potential bid for Hulu, the latest company to show interest in the six-year-old video site, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Tesla Motors Inc. just raised about $1 billion in new capital, riding a remarkable burst of investor exuberance. New Tesla shareholders will now get to see just how fast the auto business...

For weeks, Anne-Marie Baiynd kept a close eye on shares of Tesla Motors Inc. On May 9, a day after the company posted its first-ever quarterly profit, the stock exploded higher in heavy t...

Look out Facebook! Hours spent participating per member dropping seriously. First really bad sign as seen by crappy MySpace years ago. – Rupert Murdoch, still steamed about that who...

Effective spycraft has long called for cover -- a job, family or routine that would keep a government agent from drawing undue attention. Now, that calculation extends to spies' use of so...

JP Morgan is unlikely to meet its Waterloo. But shareholders should not rest on the chief executive’s imperial laurels

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the best financial sector of them all?

European debate would benefit from explaining what might happen to the City if the UK quit the EU

What pension fund managers are finding is a market more complex than the new direct lending label might suggest

When it comes to boasting of how safe they are, banks are building castles in the air

This week it was revealed that the Department of Justice secretly seized two months' worth of privat[...]

As the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay enters its fourth month and pressure to close the prison moun[...]

There's a fire burning in Bridgeton Missouri It's invisible to area residents buried deep beneath th[...]

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If media accounts are to be believed the accused Boston marathon bombers were "radicalized" by watch[...]

Lawsuits over players’ brain injuries have some saying football is dead. In fact, it has dislodged baseball as the national pastime and will remain America’s passion for decades to come.

While liberals are deploying behavioral science with stunning results, conservatives have failed to follow up on their success three decades ago with the psychology of ‘broken windows.’ H...

A majority of Venezuelans voted for change and now has no choice but to resist a regime that can hold on to power only with violence.

In the face of deficits not seen since World War II, we should question proposals to provide billions of taxpayer dollars to support an industry that is enjoying record profits.

A policy shift that weakens the link between taxes imposed and benefits received by definition yields wealth transfers, and the vast array of perverse incentives attendant upon them.

Two more posts on the topic that are worth reading

Want to change the world? En route to curing cancer, how about remembering to vote and go to jury duty?

A few elite institutions at both the grade-school and college levels are doing better than ever. But their health conceals the collapse of private-sector options in the U.S.

Years of hiding mean squeaky-clean youths out of school don't have the paper trail to prove they've been in the U.S.. Those with infractions on their records can be better off.

And 5 other cool ideas from The Atlantic's Technologies In Education Forum.

How the IRS could deny something that seems plainly true.

Searching for leakers inside an organization is one thing; dragging in reporters -- or doctors, or clergy -- is another, and usually a mistake.

In his handling of multiple national security-related uproars, the president's biggest sin is being aloof and disengaged.

Fewer groups sought recognition as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations that year than in 2009, according to the Treasury Department.

The president's flurry of activity includes a challenge to the GOP on embassy security.

There is literally a switch that could give the hermit nation the Web, Google's chairman said.

Money is tight, so Italians are upending decades of food culture by frequenting bakeries less and baking more loaves at home.

45 percent think the U.S. should intervene, but only half can identify the country.

This week's car bombing intensified resentment among Turks who want Syrian refugees gone. And some Syrians are taking them up on it.

An obscure loophole allows Tehran to profit while skirting Western sanctions.

When President Franklin Roosevelt came into office in the depth of the Great Depression, he sought to stabilize and empower American society by introducing bold new initiatives: Social Se...

In 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), offering states $3.9 billion in subsidies to modernize their election administration and equipment, purportedly in respons...

On September 20, just days after the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans had been murdered in a terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, a cr...

Caught in a lie, and a nasty and stupid one at that, he still did not back off, plunging on until he reached lows of demagoguery approached only in this campaign by . . . his running mate...

“All politics is local,” said the late U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, and local political power imposed on the country at large is why I had traveled here—to refresh my memory a...

The White House counsel to the president, one of the two or three most important positions on the White House staff, must be more than Read more...

What would the great columnists such as Walter Lippmann and James “Scotty” Reston write about the president at a moment like this? Read more...

As a record three scandals engulf Barack Obama’s presidency at once, the three-pronged effect of their damage Read more...

It’s no coincidence that word leaked out about a poll revealing that 59 percent of Americans see a conspiracy in the assassination of former President Read more...

I like Europeans. Well, to be more precise, I like them as much as I like most Americans. I have been traveling in Europe (Switzerland, Read more...

Most people in America don’t know what the National Labor Relations Board is. Well, why should they? Here’s why. Read more...

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The Internal Revenue Service dropped a bombshell last Friday, admitting that some of its employees had singled out Tea Party groups’ 501(c)(4) applications for extra Read more...

Spring in Washington has been chilly for everyone, but for no one more than President Obama — and there are few hints that more clement Read more...

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Mitt Romney and his fellow Republicans ticked every box on their national convention to-do list except one: explaining clearly how the country gets from here to prosperity.

Unless the Benghazi scandal consumes her, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is virtually a shoo-in for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination if she wants it. And she'...

As I alluded to in the previous post on the Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz., a number of digital technology programs today give kids and teachers a leg up on learning. Th...

Q. I am chief of staff for a member of the House with a question about how House ethics rules might impact staffers on furlough. The recent sequester has cut budgets for members' offices,...

In the 30th anniversary year of the landmark report on U.S. education failure, "A Nation at Risk," I really think there's hope -- at long, long last -- for a turnaround.

When you hear cries for a "return to the regular order" from both parties in both chambers, you know there is either a bipartisan consensus about the causes of disorder and its cure or a ...

B efore he triumphed over prejudice, Jackie Robinson triumphed over himself. The signal achievements of the pioneering baseball star, whose story is recounted in the top-grossing biopic ...

L ast week, a student at the University of Southern California released 15 minutes of excerpts from videos he had made of his political-science professor, Darry Sragow. Here is some of w...

A mid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun-control laws have in fact reduced murders? ...

T o understand the magnitude of what Egyptian columnist Khalid Muntasir has done, it helps to get a taste of what most Egyptian and Arab media are like. In Egypt, expressions of vicious ...

I n the last two days gold has plunged so deep that it’s being called the worst drop — at least in percentage terms — in 30 years. That brings us back to the early Reag...

Reading the highly critical report by the Internal Revenue Service’s auditor, you get the sense that rogue, lower-level agents ran amok, writing up watch lists, targeting conservative ag...

Laws meant to crack down on farm whistleblowers, commonly referred to as “ag gag” laws, have been drawing fire around the country from various quarters—from animal rights activists to fr...

If you've ever dreamed of soaring to the stars, liftoff may be coming sooner than you think. Just ask  XCOR 's Chief Test Engineer Doug Jones, who has designed a commercial suborbit...

Reason TV Editor-in-Chief Nick Gillespie appeared on Fox's Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld to discuss 3-D printed guns, Obama's call to millenials to trust in government, and New Jersey Governor...

Last week, the conservative Heritage Foundation issued a new study purporting to show that letting illegal immigrants from south of the border become citizens would cost more than $6 tri...

Despite increasing demands for U.S. military involvement in the Syrian conflict, there is still little chance that the Obama administration will commit the U.S. to a new war in the regio...

President Obama has had a tough week, and it's about to get a lot worse. The past few days have seen a cascade of evidence that the administration not only feigned transparency, but may ...

What if all of the following happened on the watch of one president of the United States? * A U.S. embassy is bombed in the Middle East. Seventeen Americans are among the 63 killed. The ...

Congratulations, graduates. At commencements like this one all across the nation this spring, former students just like you can expect to hear dignitaries of all stripes offer some quixo...

For a long time, the Republican hunt for the truth surrounding the Benghazi terror attack has reminded me of one of President Reagan's favorite jokes. It concerns a little boy whose pare...

Republicans don't want to filibuster Chuck Hagel's nomination to be the next secretary of defense, says Rachel Weiner at The Washington Post . They just want to require a 60-vote thresho...

What is an assault weapon? The term is notoriously difficult to define. Colloquially, it is used to describe commercially sold semiautomatic rifles with military-style features, includin...

Who are the working poor ? They're the millions of people who have jobs that leave them mired at the edge of poverty. Their ranks include legions of retail clerks at chains like Walmart,...

What is Hagel's background? He comes from humble stock. Born in Nebraska, Hagel grew up poor and constantly on the move. His father was a World War II veteran who had bad health and a dr...

Isn't our genetic legacy hardwired? From Mendel and Darwin in the 19th century to Watson and Crick in the 20th, scientists have shown that chromosomes passed from parent to child form a ...