Five Best Monday Columns
E.J. Dionne on the Catholic compromise, Noah Feldman on the Constitution, Ho Pin on Xi Jinping, Alan Blinder on the safety net, and Andrew Gumbel on online voting.
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Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, the hip hop duo that makes up Insane Clown Posse is pretty unhappy with the FBI for labeling their fan-base, known as Juggalos, as a "loosely-organized hybrid gang," so unhappy that they're suing.
E.J. Dionne on the Catholic compromise, Noah Feldman on the Constitution, Ho Pin on Xi Jinping, Alan Blinder on the safety net, and Andrew Gumbel on online voting.
Ever since Michigan Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra raised eyebrows with his racist Super Bowl ad, some critics have wondered about the ad's star: What Asian-American actress would be willing to do subject herself to reading the scripted pidgin English in such a xenophobic spot?
A few days after we highlighted a spat between a Boston Phoenix writer and The New York Times columnist Bill Keller, Keller is fighting back with a new blog post.
Jonathan Alter on campaign finance, David Brooks on Mitt Romney, Jimmy Wales and Kat Walsh on copyright, William Finnegan on immigration, and Donald Wuerl, Charles Colson, and Meir Soloveichik on the contraception rule.
Fox Business Network announced Thursday they will replace their three primetime programs with "encore presentations of the channel’s top post-market programs," also known as reruns of Lou Dobbs Tonight.
When a Democratic state legislator introduced a satirical bill proposing that Mississippi rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," he fooled a whole lot of people into thinking he was serious, providing a funny (but actually sad) commentary on the state of the immigration debate.
Mexican troops seized 15 tons of methamphetamine in a western state of Mexico, the Associated Press reported Thursday, which if sold in the U.S. would be worth $4 billion.
Google is considering opening a retail store in Dublin, Ireland, Bloomberg reports. This follows rumors that Amazon is considering its own stand-alone outlet in Seattle.
Ron Barber, who served as Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' district director confirmed Thursday that he will run in a special election to fill her vacant seat in the House.
Gail Collins on Catholics and contraception, George Will on Republicans and defense, Noah Feldman on gay marriage, Karl Rove on Gingrich's electoral strategy, and Meghan Daum on the latest Tiger Mom.
Groupon reported that it had a net loss in the fourth quarter Wednesday, a disappointing first result as a publicly traded company, reports Reuters.
The Boston Phoenix has a long blog post out Wednesday calling out The New York Times for uploading work owned by the paper on the same day columnist Bill Keller advocated for stronger SOPA-like enforcement of copyright laws.
CNN has decided not to let journalist and contributor Roland Martin appear on the air "for the time being" after he came under fire from gay rights groups for tweeting about David Beckham's underwear commercial which aired at the Super Bowl, reports The Washington Post's Erik Wemple.
Speaker of the House John Boehner made a floor speech Wednesday vowing to repeal the Obama Administration's rule requiring some Catholic-affiliated organizations to offer health care coverage that includes birth control.
It seemed in the heady aftermath of Tuesday's ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a Supreme Court case on Proposition 8 was inevitable, but a few news reports have since pointed out that the Supreme Court might decline to hear the appeal on California's law banning gay marriage.
Robert Reilly on Mitt Romney the businessman, Andrew Cohen on the Prop. 8 ruling, Thomas Friedman on Syria, Jeff Jacoby on Justice Ginsburg, and Katrina vanden Heuvel on the employment news
The U.K.-based Sky News is out with new guidelines for its journalists on Twitter, and they sound pretty limiting: Sky employees can no longer retweet news from other outlets or items unrelated to their work or their beat.
Reuters is out with a report that China is buying up oil from Saudi Arabia and other sources to reduce the amount it depends on Iran as it negotiates prices with Tehran
South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson filed a lawsuit Tuesday after the Justice Department blocked South Carolina's controversial law requiring voters to present a photo I.D.
On Tuesday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court's ruling on the voter-approved measure that outlawed same-sex marriage.
Frank Bruni on gay marriage, James Dorsey on China's Syria veto, Dana Milbank on Jack Abramoff, Gideon Rachman on Putin, and Bret Stephens on Israel and Iran
Clint Eastwood's much commented upon "Halftime in America" Chrysler ad has apparently raised the ire of some conservatives who dislike its implicit approval of the auto-bailout.
Newt Gingrich has officially given up trying to make courts allow him onto the Virginia primary ballot.
With average viewership of 111.3 million people, Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast beat last year's record for the most watched Super Bowl of 111.0 million, according to the NBC official numbers released Monday afternoon.
About 20 Occupy-affiliated protesters crashed a New York state legislative budget meeting Monday morning, but it doesn't sound as if they had much of an audience.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein attracted notice Monday when the Human Rights Campaign posted a 30-second video on the Web that features his endorsement of same-sex marriage.
Bill Keller on online piracy, James Carroll on television, Hendrik Hertzberg on debates, Lisa Levenstein and Jennifer Mittelstadt on food stamps, and Albert Hunt on Obama.
Some more sunny economic news today: The Dow shot way up today, buoyed by good jobs numbers released Friday morning, closing at a high it hasn't seen since May 2008.
David and Charles Koch, billionaire businessmen known for their donations to conservative causes, together pledged $60 million to defeat President Obama at a private California retreat for donors and strategists, reports the Huffington Post.
Reuters is out with a report that Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban suspected of hiding in Pakistan, wrote the White House a letter last year demanding the transfer of militant prisoners
Rick Santorum might not be allowed onto the Indiana primary ballot in May, and no not just because he might have lost all hope of overcoming Mitt Romney by then, but because he's at least 30 signatures short.
Jill Lepore on Planned Parenthood, Jonathan Alter on Gingrich's attacks, Robert Pape on humanitarian intervention, Peggy Noonan on Obama's Catholic decision, and Charles Krauthammer on Syria and Iran.
Well, as earlier suspected, Mitt Romney and Donald Trump appeared together in Las Vegas so Trump could finally endorse the Republican candidate
Mitt Romney appeared with Donald Trump at an event at Trump's Las Vegas Casino Thursday afternoon, and Trump just confirmed that he will endorse Romney there.
Michael Wolff on Facebook's IPO, Juliette Kayyem on women in combat, Howard Markel on influenza research, Fareed Zakaria on the post-American century, and Andy Kessler on the 'Like' button
An old video has resurfaced of Newt Gingrich on Charlie Rose's show in 1998 discussing a conversation he had with the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno about how to deal with assistant coaches.
Facebook's much anticipated IPO filing has arrived, exciting tech reporters everywhere.
A protester threw glitter on Mitt Romney at an event Wednesday, and Romney either didn't know or didn't care that the so-called "glitter-bombing" is a signature act of protest among gay rights advocates, reports Fox9 in Minnesota.
After years of complaints that American companies are exploiting unpaid interns, a former Harper’s Bazaar intern is suing the Hearst Corporation for allegedly violating labor laws, and the lawyers are hoping to turn it into a class action suit.
Officials now report 73 people died in the riot, and that the army had to send helicopters to evacuate the players.
President Obama proposed a new plan to allow people to refinance their mortgages Wednesday which Speaker John Boehner wasted no time in criticizing.
Robert Samuelson on tax reform, Jeff Greenfield on the GOP convention, Holman Jenkins Jr. on Wi-Fi, Benjamin Nugent on Asperger Syndrome, and Fouad Ajami on Putin and Syria.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation decided to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, citing a Congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood, and apparently catching supporters of both organizations off guard.
Barnes & Noble had some fighting words for Amazon Tuesday with their announcement that the company won't sell titles from Amazon's new publishing arm in its stores.
PolitickerNY has a report out Tuesday that Seamus, the dog Romney famously put on the roof of the car when the family drove to Canada in 1983, may have actually run away once the Romneys reached the Great White North.
People wondered Monday whether Obama has found in Google+ "hangouts" his "fireside chat" -- a new medium through which he, like President Roosevelt with the radio, can uniquely connect with citizens.
George Packer on the 1972 election, Leif Babin on publicizing the Navy SEALs, Jonathan Cohn on Romney's wealth, Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Mark Hanis on drones, and Dana Milbank on Newt Gingrich.
President Obama is hosting a Google+ "hangout" at 5:30 p.m. Monday to answer questions submitted virtually.
In a thoughtful essay for Esquire, Tom Junod -- who penned the magazine's 2003 piece about the iconic photo of a man falling from the World Trade Center on Sept 11 -- weighs in on the mini-controversy surrounding Mad Men's newest promotional image.
President Obama's campaign strategist David Axelrod chimed in Monday on the scandal surrounding the time Mitt Romney drove to Canada with his dog in a crate tied to the roof of his car in the 1980s.
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