What does the historic vote on same-sex marriage in New York mean for the rest of the country? Will it play a role if and when the U.S.
Gay Marriage: The Coming Clash of Civil and Religious Liberties
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Toronto G-20 Summit Threatened by U.S.-E.U. Fiscal Row
Convened in Washington, in November 2008, the first G-20 summit was a hasty attempt by top economies to forge common cause against a rapidly escalating financial crisis.
Animal Cruelty: New Undercover Video Links Major Retailers to Barbaric Handling of Pigs
Earlier this year, the National Pork Board introduced its new slogan: “Be inspired.” It isn’t nearly as catchy as “the other white meat,” an earlier campaign that touted the health benefits of pork, but it did evoke something even higher and nobler. But nobility hardly describes the public image of the industry this week, and if consumers are inspired to do anything at all, it would be to stop eating pork entirely.
No Laughing Matter: Braving the World’s First Tickle Spa
Elena Gil admits she is an addict. “It started when I was kid,” she says.
Convicts or Illegals: Georgia Hunts for Farmworkers As Tough Immigration Law Takes Hold
As a gubernatorial candidate last summer, Georgia Republican Nathan Deal boasted of having backed measures to bar undocumented immigrants from federal health care, and public colleges.
Vladimir Putin: When Family is Virtually a State Secret
For almost all major politicians, life is never private.
America’s Worst Schools Get A $4 Billion Fix
“Ba-Boom!” Leroy Hayes describes sitting in his seventh-grade English class at Philadelphia’s Shoemaker Middle School when he heard the explosion. It was startling but not necessarily surprising, he says
South Africa’s Public-Sector Strike a Dilemma for Zuma
The use of rubber bullets by South African police against striking public-sector workers in Soweto — erstwhile cauldron of antiapartheid protest — carries a symbolic significance that will send shockwaves through the country. But it also marks a milestone in the slow transition by the ruling African National Congress from being a rebel movement that reflexively backed striking workers to being a government that can’t afford to heed their demands
Nation: Sorry, Your Policy Is Canceled
On the Hawaiian island of Molokai, pregnant women who want a doctor in attendance when they give birth fly to neighboring Oahu or Maui.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Court: Trial of Century Begins
The scrum of reporters assembles in the pre-dawn quiet two blocks from the border of Chinatown. It is more than two hours before Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to make an appearance, but it doesn’t matter.