A Premiere Chef Explores The Jiggly Joys Of Gelatin

If you think gelatin’s charms go no further than wobbly, crimson cubes of lunchroom Jell-O, one of the most celebrated and ambitious chefs in the country would like to convince you otherwise. “Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today,” said Jose Andres, the Spanish-born restauranteur and innovator of avant-garde cooking, earlier this [...]

Clinton Pushes Pakistan On Terrorism

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up talks Friday with senior Pakistani leaders as the two sides continued to show strains in their relationship over the issue of combatting terrorism. Clinton took part in high-level discussions Thursday night and met Friday with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabanni Khar. It was brief, and at a press [...]

Chicago’s ‘Congestion Fee’ Gets Chilly Reception

Chicago recently ranked as the city with the second-worst traffic congestion problem in the country, but it doesn’t have a lot of money to invest in other transit options. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s solution? A $2 “congestion fee” on weekday parking in public lots and garages downtown. Other cities have had some success with congestion pricing [...]

A Bid To Bring Foreign Buyers To The Housing Market

Existing home sales and home prices declined last month, indicating the market remains in a slump. Now there’s a proposal in Congress to try to change that. Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Charles Schumer, D-Nev., introduced a bill Thursday that would grant U.S. tourist visas to foreign homebuyers paying with cash. The hope is that [...]

With Revised Tax Plan, Cain Faces Questions About Consistency

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s much discussed 9-9-9 tax plan just got a major facelift after intensifying criticism that it would shift the tax burden to the least fortunate Americans. In a Detroit speech Friday, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO created another numbers scheme for those “at or below poverty level.” “Your plan isn’t 9-9-9,” [...]

Will Cain’s New 9-0-9 Tax Plan Really Help The Poor?

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan has taken a lot of heat recently. One of the biggest criticisms: several independent analysts have found that under the plan, poor and middle class families would pay higher taxes while the richest of the rich would see a substantial tax cut. Today in Detroit, Cain unveiled [...]

President Obama: All Troops Out of Iraq By Dec. 31

President Obama, a critic of the Iraq war from the very beginning, announced Friday that all U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of December. After nearly nine years, he said, the war will be over. The president spoke after a video-conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. The White House says the [...]

Romney Visits Oklahoma

One of the Republican front runners makes a brief stop for two events in Oklahoma City.

High Anxieties Make For A Mad, Mad Movie World

In the space of a few weeks, Hollywood will give us four serious dramas about mentally unstable characters. It’s a minitrend at best, and most likely coincidental. But it got me thinking about how filmmakers use narrative form to shake up audiences and put them in the same frame of mind as the characters they’re [...]

Clinton Says U.S. Met With Haqqanis; Pushes Pakistan On Security

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Pakistan to urge the country’s leadership to eliminate safe havens for terrorists, says that U.S. officials met with the Haqqani network this summer. She did not say who the participants were, or what was discussed. As the BBC reports: Reports about such a meeting circulated over the summer but [...]