Five Best Monday Columns
Robert Samuelson on deficit reduction, James Surowiecki on consumer spending, and Albert Hunt on Herman Cain
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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.
Robert Samuelson on deficit reduction, James Surowiecki on consumer spending, and Albert Hunt on Herman Cain
The National Restaurant Association has allowed one of the women who accused Herman Cain of sexually harassing her to waive the non-disclosure agreement, and her lawyer said, "My client stands by the complaint she made," but declined to give more details of the incidents.
Mitt Romney and Herman Cain both spoke to an audience of fiscal conservatives at the Americans For Prosperity Foundation’s annual summit today in Washington D.C., and as is the case any time a group of Republican nominees get together, much of interest went down
Israel stopped a flotilla of ships headed past its Gaza blockade today in a confrontation that went much more smoothly than the one that resulted in the death of eight Turkish citizens and one American in May 2010.
Andrey Kurkov on Ukraine, Brett McGurk on Iraq, and Clive Stafford Smith on drones.
Michigan's Senate passed an anti-bullying measure today, but at the last minute Republicans added a clause reasserting freedom of expression for "religious or moral viewpoints."
We weren't sure they could top their wonderful photo gallery, "Women Laughing Alone With Salad," but with today's "Women Struggling to Drink Water," but we think the folks at The Hairpin have done it.
Facing its greatest technological non-crisis since the BlackBerry network outage of '11, America is currently grappling with an apparent Siri outage.
Not to be totally outdone by their peers in Oakland, over 15 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested today after they linked arms to block the lobby to the Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York.
Taking a breather from staving off financial Armageddon at the G-20 Summit today, President Obama had a little fun at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's expense.
Days after we learned that one of two women who accused Herman Cain of sexually harrassing them received a $35,000 in severance fee, Politico's Jonathan Martin now reports that the other accuser received $45,000.
Yesterday, White House fact checkers sought to disprove the falsehoods put forward by ... the White House.
Nicholas Kristof on family planning, Dana Milbank on Herman Cain, and Joshua Green on Mitt Romney.
Even 2,500 years after Ancient Athenians conceived of democracy, we can't stop talking about it, especially after the news broke that Greece decided to put Europe's rescue package up for a country-wide referendum.
Margaret Carlson on Cain's moment, Steven Rattner on the Euro, and Bill Gates on foreign aid.
Asked about the video that got people wondering if Rick Perry was a drunk or has a pill problem, the presidential candidate said, "I felt the message got across very well."
Politicians and political watchers alike are trying to capitalize on Twitter's once straightfoward hashtag symbol.
After a big drop this morning, U.S. stock markets rebounded a bit on news that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou probably won't get his disastrous referendum after all.
The Arab League will announce tomorrow a deal it forged with the Syrian government to stop the government's brutal crackdown on unrest, Syria's state media reported today.
Parliament saw new internal notes and emails between News Corp. employees today that indicate James Murdoch and other executives were aware of its British newspapers's proclivity for phone hacking.
"Heads I win tails you lose," is an old game of rigged odds, but it's been getting a lot of play among this week's opinion writers, concerned as they are with the state of our financial industry.
Joe Nocera on Jon Corzine, Charles Lane on U.S. infrastructure, and Frank Bruni on gay marriage.
Uniting news reports from across the east coast, Weather.com declared this weekend's storm, "a snowtober to remember."
Bill Keller on India's protests, Hendrik Hertzberg on Occupy Wall Street, and L. Gordon Crovitz on immigration for engineers.
Intrepid-Washington Post reporter Ned Martel asked costume store owners and pollsters alike, and discovered that no one wants to dress up like Sarah Palin this year, perhaps the most festive sign that her political star is fading.
Parts of the Northeast are predicted to get up to a foot of snow this weekend, which would likely -- and unsurprisingly -- set records for October snowfall in many locations.
Police shot and injured a lone gunman after the man fired shots toward the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.
Firuz Kazemzadeh on Iran, Robert Morgenthau on immigration, and Paul Krugman on Iceland.
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest tech company, decided to keep its PC business after calculating that spinning it off would cost $1.5 billion.
Major banks -- located not on Wall Street but in midtown Manhattan -- are worried about a planned Occupy Wall Street march to their headquarters tomorrow.
Check out this photo of a volunteer meeting for the Elizabeth Warren campaign that's being passed around today.
President Obama, it seems, is well within the tradition of American presidents who got stuck with a foreign policy catchphrase not of their making.
Nicholas Kristof on capitalism, E.J. Dionne on the Vatican, and Jonathan Chait on Paul Ryan.
The cliche: Offering unsolicited advice is pretty much a pundit's job description, but when writing about Occupy Wall Street, they seem compelled to note that the protesters themselves do not actually seek their guidance.
Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York are worried that cold weather will mute their movement, and the freezing temperatures elsewhere in America prove that they're right to stress about it.
Holman Jenkins Jr. on Netflix, Thomas Friedman on Obama's foreign policy, and Margaret Carlson on Joe Biden.
President Obama will compare the Republican primary to a reality TV show while sitting on the couch of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday evening.
A new tumblr getting attention today asks the question on every Brooklyn-goer's mind: Halloween or Williamsburg?
Ian Murphy, the editor of a satirical Buffalo-based newspaper who last made headlines when he prank called embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, posing as billionaire David Koch, has been arrested for wielding a dildo at an anti-gay marriage protest in New York.
Researchers got a glimpse into an archive of Saddam Hussein's papers -- and thus his conspiratorial mind -- today.
Rick Perry has become the latest candidate to embrace simplicity as a first principle, by proposing a flat-tax that is measured by its tax form rather than its policy merits.
Roger Cohen on Europe, Marc Thiessen on Marco Rubio, Matt Kaminski on Tunisia.
"Boomlet," with its implicit sense of inevitable decline, has been a favorite word for Cain even when he polled in the single digits.
Paul Krugman on Europe, David Remnick on Qaddafi, Fredd Hiatt on South Korean education.
Rupert Murdoch was repentant but stood his ground while facing angry critics at a shareholder meeting today.
It's been a busy week for Princeton's Cornel West, who was arrested in D.C. on Sunday, and was just arrested again in New York this afternoon.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor abruptly cancelled a speech scheduled for today about income equality at the Wharton School of Business after Occupy Philadelphia protesters lined up by the hundreds to attend.
Libyan leaders aren't quite sure how to go about the most immediate decision facing them after the former dictator's death: how to go about burying him.
An unusually silly sounding word has become the preferred way to describe the GOP front-runner.
Fouad Ajami on Libya, Lisa Jackson on the environment, and David Ignatius on Obama's foreign policy.
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