After the Ft. Hood killings
Nader Hasan’s cousin killed Kerry Cahill’s father at Fort Hood in 2009. Then the unlikely pair worked together
Don't trust the Godless
Even as an atheist, I have more confidence in religious people. And now science is backing me up
Mitt stalked me on the Web
The Republican's campaign is using ShareThis, an online data-collecting company, to target potential voters
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Politics Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 6:00 PM UTC
Rethinking “tough on crime”
States across the country are reconsidering three-strikes laws, particularly for low-level drug crimes
Topics:
California, Crime, Human Rights, Los Angeles, The Crime Report
Life Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
The best portable hard drive
It's the Silicon Power Armor A80
Topics:
Computers, gadgets, technology, The Wirecutter
Politics Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 3:00 PM UTC
Testing matters
Massachusetts' new HIV testing law and what it means
Topics:
AIDS, GlobalPost, Health, Human Rights, Privacy
Politics Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 2:45 PM UTC
Challenging the Surveillance State
How can the sprawling domestic spying apparatus be undermined?
Politics Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 12:00 PM UTC
Romney boosts liberal Mormons
With their religion front and center, progressive Latter-day Saints are becoming bolder about speaking out
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Topics:
Mitt Romney, Mormon Church, Religion
Life Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 1:00 AM UTC
Meet pedophiles who mean well
The men behind VirtuousPedophiles.com are attracted to children but devoted to denying their desires
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Topics:
Editor's Picks, Sexual abuse
Arts Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 10:00 PM UTC
Six degrees of Spider-Man
Forget Kevin Bacon! Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield lead the Spidey reboot. Can you tie the films' stars together? SLIDE SHOW
Life Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 7:00 PM UTC
Remodeling will tear us apart
Months into our home renovation, my husband and I were barely speaking, and the contractor looked awfully cute
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Topics:
Coupling, Editor's Picks, Life stories, Love and Sex
Politics Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 6:00 PM UTC
Mexico’s alcohol ban
La Ley Seca enforced during election weekend
Topics:
Alcohol, elections, GlobalPost, Latin America, Mexico
Politics Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
The age of illusion: An interview with Chris Hayes
An editor at large from the Nation discusses meritocracy, Occupy Wall Street and the struggle against the elite
Life Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
Why are believers ignorant about atheists?
When believers talk about atheists, they often don't bother to talk to any first. What are they afraid of?
Arts Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 4:00 PM UTC
Laura Marling: How to beat depression
The alt-rock chanteuse shares her secrets about pulling back from the despair she so often sings about
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Topics:
Laura Marling, Music, Neil Young, The Weekly Feed
Life Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 3:30 PM UTC
5-inch live worm removed from man’s eye in India
The 75-year-old man came to doctors with persistent pain in his right eye
Topics:
Animals, Asia, GlobalPost, Health, India
Politics Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 3:00 PM UTC
The 1 percent’s first fight
Debates about the rich's influence in government are as old as the country
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Topics:
American History, History, U.S. Constitution
Arts Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
Men in books
Men don’t live up to their literary models
Topics:
Books, literature, relationships, The Weeklings, Writers and Writing
Life Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 1:00 PM UTC
The Week in Pictures
From the death of an American legend to conflict in Kashmir, here's what dominated the headlines this week SLIDE SHOW
Topics:
The Week in Pictures
Politics Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 1:00 PM UTC
“Parent trigger”: The latest tactic for fighting teachers’ unions
Liberal politicians are lining up behind "parent trigger" -- the latest attack on educators' bargaining rights
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Topics:
Education, The Labor Movement
Life Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 12:00 PM UTC
Jenny McCarthy’s Playboy spread hurts older women
At 40, the celebrity is insults women who don't have her advantages
Life Friday, Jun 29, 2012 11:30 PM UTC
If this is my final tweet
After a harrowing health crisis, I was forced to reexamine my life – and the way I managed my own troubled heart
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Topics:
Health, Life stories, Medicine
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 8:53 PM UTC
Tea Party “treason”
What powers should the president have against those who advocate open, violent revolt against the U.S. government?
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Topics:
Conservatism, Health care reform, National security, Tea Party, treason
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 8:35 PM UTC
How Romneycare is like Obamacare on taxes
Mitt Romney is slamming Obamacare as a huge tax increase, but his Massachusetts mandate did the exact same thing
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Topics:
Healthcare Reform, Mitt Romney
Arts Friday, Jun 29, 2012 8:15 PM UTC
Covers look familiar?
The new Scientific American appears to borrow a cover idea from the New York Times Magazine
Arts Friday, Jun 29, 2012 8:06 PM UTC
“The World Without You”
Scott Cheshire sits down with author Joshua Henkin
Topics:
Books, Full Stop, Iraq, Journalism, U.S. Military, Writers and Writing
Arts Friday, Jun 29, 2012 8:00 PM UTC
Farewell, TomKat!
In the least shocking divorce news ever, the world's biggest, strangest celebrity marriage comes to a close
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Topics:
Celebrity, Katie Holmes, Scientology, Tom Cruise
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 7:45 PM UTC
German Parliament OKs fiscal pact, euro fund
The Parliament's lower house accepted the eurozone's deal
Topics:
From the Wires
Life Friday, Jun 29, 2012 6:15 PM UTC
Stop calling it a sex scandal
Dear media: Learn the difference between abuse and sex -- otherwise, you're sensationalizing violence and rape
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 4:37 PM UTC
Signs of life in housing
After years in the doldrums, is the market finally improving?
Topics:
2012 Elections, Consumerism, Housing, Politics, U.S. Economy
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 4:00 PM UTC
Imprisoned for giving birth
The brutal realities of giving birth in Kenya's public hospitals -- and what happens when you can't pay
Arts Friday, Jun 29, 2012 3:50 PM UTC
Who deserves to die?
A bold ad campaign aims to destigmatize lung cancer -- by telling animal lovers and crazy aunts they should die
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Topics:
Advertising, Cancer, Health
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 3:35 PM UTC
Student anger boils over
The idea of a student debt strike is circulating among activists -- could it take off?
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 3:03 PM UTC
O’Malley: Some Republicans want to secede
Maryland's governor tells Salon some GOP leaders "would like to get out of ... the Union" over Obamacare, Medicaid
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 2:47 PM UTC
Congress poised to act on highways, student loans
The House and Senate are set to vote on a package that could save millions of jobs and aid students across America
Topics:
Congress, From the Wires, Student Loan Debt, U.S. Economy
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 2:44 PM UTC
The 10 most unhinged reactions to the court
The healthcare case prompted wingers to vent their frustrations with life, the universe and everything
Arts Friday, Jun 29, 2012 2:35 PM UTC
Neil Young: “I’m back in the same place”
Interview: Neil Young compares recording to animals and White Castle, and shares a trip home in the film "Journeys"
Topics:
Jonathan Demme, Movies, Music, Neil Young
Life Friday, Jun 29, 2012 2:34 PM UTC
Miss Holocaust Survivor
In Israel, a 79-year-old was crowned in a pageant that is being criticized as "macabre"
Topics:
GlobalPost, Holocaust, Israel, Judaism, Middle East
Arts Friday, Jun 29, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”: A spectacular bayou folk tale
Benh Zeitlin's gorgeous, crackpot fable of post-Katrina Louisiana is the year's must-see indie film
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 1:45 PM UTC
‘Breakthrough’ as euro zone agrees to directly recapitalize banks
European leaders have agreed to use euro zone bailout funds to directly recapitalize struggling banks
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 1:36 PM UTC
Viva la diferencia
In Sunday's elections, it's likely the liberal Mexican capital will once again go against the grain
Topics:
elections, GlobalPost, Latin America, Mexico
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 12:35 PM UTC
Obama’s odds just improved
And it has nothing to do with healthcare
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Topics:
Opening Shot
Politics Friday, Jun 29, 2012 12:22 PM UTC
Anthony Kennedy joins the radicals
The "swing justice" showed a new and frightening extremism in joining the dissent to strike down healthcare
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