Less than two weeks before the far-reaching mechanisms of Minnesota’s government might come to a halt, Jessica Lund’s mind is filled with thoughts of snikerdoodles.
Ten Days and Counting: Why Minnesota’s Government Could Shut Down July 1
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Wal-Mart Ruling Is Major Setback for Worker Rights
The Supreme Court’s decision to throw out a sex-discrimination suit by a large group of female Wal-Mart employees may look like a mere procedural decision about the rules for class-action lawsuits. But it is in fact a much bigger deal: it significantly shifts power from workers to big employers.
Pawnshops Thrive, Draw Scrutiny over Interest Rates
With banks reluctant to loosen purse strings and credit-card companies aggressively slashing credit lines, a growing number of consumers are turning to the once murky world of pawnshops for quick cash. “Loans are up 20% to 25%,” estimates David Crume, president of the National Pawnbrokers Association
Shipping with the Enemy: An Israeli Company Deals with Iran
Somehow, it fell to the United States to censure an Israeli shipping company for doing business with Iran.
What We Saw at the Revolution
Last week, after the Egyptian opposition called for a march after prayers, TIME’s Abigail Hauslohner, based in Cairo, and TIME’s Rania Abouzeid, who had just returned from covering the Tunisian uprising, walked among the protesters and felt the blunt and brutal response of the regime’s antiriot police. To escape club-bearing cops, Hauslohner ran through narrow streets and found refuge in a small courtyard, only to have a tear-gas canister land near where she stood with a small group of protesters.
The Animosities Beneath the Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation
His captors put out cigarettes on Haitham Amro’s body.
The Ways of Opus Dei
In early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side when she cracked up inappropriately.
The Education Crisis Everyone Is Ignoring
On Tuesday, when President Obama traveled to El Paso, Texas, to again make the case for immigration reform, he talked about the tragedy of a policy that denies children the chance to earn a college education because of the way that their parents entered the country. But in many ways, we’ve already failed our fastest growing ethnic group, Hispanics Americans, long before they reach college and regardless of whether they were born here or not.
Send Out the Clowns
Unlike his rival Jared Fogle, whose message of wellness has helped Subway overtake the Golden Arches as the largest restaurant chain in the world, Ronald McDonald doesn’t look Unlike his rival Jared Fogle, whose message of wellness has helped Subway overtake the Golden Arches as the largest restaurant chain in the world, Ronald McDonald doesn’t look like the picture of health these days. When a report recently surfaced that the 48-year-old clown was being retired, Ronald haters everywhere felt vindicated
Music: San Francisco Goes Big Time
A lot of little misses at Davies Hall may yet make a hit Building a large concert hall is one of the grand gambles a city can make. The latest to try its luck is San Francisco, which opened Louise M.