Obama promises change to 75,000 in Oregon (photos); Thai Prime Minister promises change by quitting job as TV chef. Print for the commute: How the conservative movement ran out of ideas. Clinton: "This is nowhere near over." Audio: How a reporter relied on Buffy (the Vampire Slayer)
China deploys armed guards to protect pandas in quake's aftermath; Japanese officials: We don't like pandas very much. "We knew we were in trouble when the Serbs stopped delivering our flour." Through war, upheaval, and independence, Kosovoan bakers just keep baking. Reminding critics of
Dutch cartoonist arrested on hate-speech grounds after depicting a gay Christian and Muslim zombie marriage. How to make your eye feel like it's closed, when it's actually open. San Diego Zoo, prison merge. A cat and mouse cause a 72-hour power failure in Albania.
With California's legalization of same-sex marriage, an election issue was born--one on which all the candidates agree. Opponents of gay marriage cowboy up for November, citing fears of human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. Woman accused of driving teen to commit suicide is
The new White House tactic in shorthand: Vote for Obama, vote for acquiescing to Nazis. McCain: Bush is exactly right about that. Rauschenberg's has been a life well lived. As for his art, it stank in the 1950s and it doesn't look any better today. Op:
Republicans fear joblessness in November, especially from conservative Democrats who could "take our issues." Op: Besides "hammering yet another symbolic nail into Clinton's already subterranean coffin," what Edwards's Obama endorsement really means. As the race for the Democratic nomination winds down, a
Clinton scores big West Virginia win, Obama retains "nearly insurmountable advantage" in delegates. And where has Giuliani been, post-bump? Consulting in Ukrainian urban politics. Ehrenreich: Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way. Dating FAQ from Grand Theft Auto; marital rating
A booming economy, soaring literacy rates, and how false statistics belie the Burma military's inability to lead. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal." Bush gave up the links in 2003. From 2006, "Golf Is a Highly Mental Game."
Op: "Muslim law" prohibits punishment for any Muslim who kills Obama. And in response: That's the new Obama smear, that he was a Muslim, coming straight from the New York Times. Times hacks off limbs from its classical arts department. "Unsettlingly alive" stem cell
The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone or a severed limb. In China, parents grieve, wait at a schoolhouse leveled by the earthquake. Chinese officials say death toll has reached 12,000, and is likely to rise. In Burma, first U.S. relief flights arrive; residents
