16 June 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Even as the overall U.S. life expectancy is rising, in some counties it's leveling off--or dropping.
With Medicaid dollars set to run out at the end of the month, a growing number of unemployed Americans face an uncertain future.
With the Pentagon buying less, U.S. arms makers ply wares overseas--raising domestic eyebrows at the customer base.
Spurned a decade ago, American retailers discover success in Europe thanks to Gossip Girl, Glee, et al.
I'm really not trying to be known for cursing, so let's keep it about what happened. Children's book author explains why he was booted from a flight.
In the first months of the Civil War, both sides wore blue, gray, and every other color imaginable.
Op: The conservative movement is a means to distribute wealth to celebrities.
The Republican and the Democratic political ad sales teams at Google are kept separate.
To Joyce fans, June 16 means Bloomsday--here are ways to celebrate; the un-inducted can read Ulysses on Twitter.
Colum McCann becomes the second Irish author to win the €100,000 International Impac Dublin Literary Award.
See also: Birnbaum's TMN chat with McCann, who prefers New York to Dublin.
Owner of a half-built, abandoned reactor in the Tennessee Valley can't re-stir interest in nuclear, despite a convincing case.
New discoveries about behavior-controlling tumors question free will and the foundation of the legal system.
Jennifer Egan on the "unattractive, talentless, narcissistic" Madonna's transformation into a global icon.
Video: A retrospective of Woody Allen surrogates, from John Cusack to Owen Wilson.
