03/25/2014 - 20:00
From the beginning, the Affordable Care Act faced an uphill battle. Opponents vowed to overturn it, lawyers filed one lawsuit after the next, and the government website’s flawed launch will live in infamy.
03/20/2014 - 15:00
The last time Congress passed comprehensive immigration reform, the hottest girl band was the Bangles and their top song, Manic Monday, played incessantly on the radio, the movie Top Gun with a young star named Tom Cruise was in theaters, and Ronald Reagan was in the Oval Office.
03/19/2014 - 16:00
In any given school year, colleges make news for all the wrong reasons. Students start a bonfire in the quad. They uproot the goal posts after a big game. A fraternity or sorority is tossed off campus. But this year there is another problem: College students have the mumps.
03/07/2014 - 07:00
Just as the ground remains frozen under the winter ice, the jobs situation stagnated during the last month.
02/18/2014 - 14:00
Not to take anything away from those lady snowboarders with their defiant, Katniss Everdeen braids, but without figure skating, no one would watch the Olympics. The sport has come to define the winter games. And like every other sport, some athletes are more than stars. They are change agents.
02/14/2014 - 13:03
Technology has given us instant information, instant communication, instant entertainment and even an instant way to fall in love. Today’s 20-somethings never knew a world where people didn’t meet online.
02/07/2014 - 09:00
The unemployment rate fell just slightly in January, amid a relatively small increase in jobs, dropping to 6.6 percent from 6.7 percent in December, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
02/07/2014 - 06:00
If nothing else, it should be clear by now that women can scream headlong down a mountain on skis, hop on a sled and shoot around an icy path wearing spandex and soar high above the half pipe while perched on a snowboard. So why, after 90 years of the Winter Olympics, is this the first time women will compete in the ski jumping competition?
01/28/2014 - 17:00
As President Barack Obama concluded the State of the Union address Jan. 28, he uttered words that have, in recent times, become inevitable: “God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.”
01/21/2014 - 08:39
It may be hard to believe, especially if you are weathering the snowstorms in the Northeast and Midwest, but 2013 was actually one of the hottest years on record, according to NASA scientists.