* Best photographs from 2012 as chosen by Alan Taylor's "In Focus" (part 1 of 3). * Washington state begins issuing same-sex marriage licenses today. * Lessons from Europe on how to create a healthy deficit reduction program. * Battles in Cairo when Morsi supporters attack protesters camped outside
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* Even the White House wanted tighter restrictions on drones, in case the program fell into the wrong hands: Romney's. * Russia's current political climate: "Everyone knows (and has evidence) that everyone else has been skimming money." * New York real estate developers continue to ignore risks,
* Death toll from southern Philippines typhoon passes 270. * Insourcing boom: General Electric and others begin returning manufacturing to the United States. * Republican leaders punish Tea Party loyalists and other back-benchers. * In case you needed another reason to hate Congressional Republicans: Meet the Sovereigntists. * Obama considering Vogue's Anna
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* In the years since Howard Dean's quick rise and quicker fall, the left has embraced a model of campaign that's fueled by data. * Roddick faces Murray in exhibition match. * The story so far: On the lam, John McAfee claims to be wearing disguises, maintaining sobriety, and
* Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen crucifies, amputates, and tortures, and also provides public services. * Bahrain's embrace of a Kardashian is part of a larger effort to shift news coverage away from protest marches. * Facebook's Chris Hughes, now owner-editor of the New Republic, represents "a
Oh look, it's the holidays and time to interact with humans again. Thankfully, there are board games to facilitate or replace conversation. Here are 10 of the year's best to get you started.
* Humanitarian adventure journalist David Oliver Relin, co-author of Three Cups of Tea, dies at 49. * Paul Ford on how the contemporary Authentocracy is ruling your happiness. * On unfinished novels: "The fatal flaw in all them was my abysmal plot-developing skills." * Two years ago, an LA man
Plenty of artists take inspiration from Google Maps. But Arden Bendler Browning’s abstractions of urban landscapes convince us the city—riotous and tamed, growing and decaying—is more alive than we think.
