Debating a Primary Do-Over

It looks like Dems in Florida and Michigan may get another chance to make their votes count. But who'll pick up the tab?

Death Comes for Israel's Seminarians

A massacre at a birthplace of Jewish religious nationalism threatens to further inflame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Huckabee's Improbable Insurgency

Counted out from the get-go, the charismatic former pastor ended up showing that a true outsider can still shake up the political order

Air Force Snub Good for Boeing

Despite protest on Capitol Hill, a tanker contract awarded to an Airbus-led consortium reflects the realities of a global aircraft market to which the U.S. firm will have to adapt to survive

Joint Replacements Expected to Soar

A new report suggests that Americans are going to replace their knees and hips in greater numbers, and there might not be enough doctors to handle the deluge

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VIDEO

10 Questions for Anne Rice

Famous for her sinister vampire chronicles, bestselling author Anne Rice has sold nearly 100 million novels. Watch the video interview here

BLOGS

Swampland

Lord of War Arrested

Often overlooked is the U.S. military's own documented role in hiring companies tied to the empire of Victor Bout, one of the world's most famous arms traffickers.

Work in Progress

Power to the Halfricans (and Other Halves)

Whatever happens in this race, Barack Obama's appearance on the world stage will have forever altered many things.

Nerd World

Watchmen Alert: What They Look Like

Watchmen is one of those things — like most nerdy things — where if you haven't read it you couldn't care less, but if you have read it it's massively important to you. I'm in that second group.

THE PAGE

Mulling Obama's Negative Strategy

Mark Halperin considers the dangers of making attacks against Clinton a central campaign tactic. Read his take and get all your political news on The Page

POSTCARD FROM...

Managua

Twilight of the Sandalistas

The leftist true believers who came to Nicaragua in the '80s to support the revolution now find themselves being more Sandinista than the Sandinistas themselves

Beirut

March Madness in Lebanon

In the Lebanese league, the players rarely fight; it's the fans that have to be kept apart

QUOTES OF THE DAY

Open quoteWhile I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has.Close quote

  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  • in an 1864 letter to be auctioned April 3, replying to children who had petitioned him to free America's slave children

Columns

An Old Story

Two more memoirs are exposed as fakes. Why do writers do it? For the same reason you do

U.S.

Does New York Have a Serial Bomber?

A small but potentially fatal blast in Times Square snarls traffic and has eerie similarities to two previous unsolved attacks

HEALTH & SCIENCE

Joint Replacements Expected to Soar

A new report suggests that Americans are going to replace their knees and hips in greater numbers, and there might not be enough doctors to handle the deluge

BUSINESS & TECH

Air Force Snub Good for Boeing

Despite protest on Capitol Hill, a tanker contract awarded to an Airbus-led consortium reflects the realities of a global aircraft market to which the U.S. firm will have to adapt to survive