At Pop-Up Magazine Shows, No Recordings Allowed

Magazines, documentaries and art are usually meant to be preserved to live on in time. But a group in San Francisco has decided that art, if ephemeral, may be appreciated in a different way. The group created Pop-Up Magazine, a live magazine that happens once onstage, in one place — and it’s not recorded. Editor [...]

OSU Remembers 4 Lost in Plane Crash

Simple orange ribbons and the numeral four seen throughout Gallagher Iba Arena.

Governor Reacts to OSU Crash

Governor Fallin is encouraging colleges in the state to review policies for flights after the death of two OSU coaches last week.

Supercommittee’s Failure Could Have Super Political Fallout

With the members of the congressional deficit-cutting supercommittee essentially announcing that they couldn’t get to “yes,” the nation is only seeing the latest turn of the screw in the partisan paralysis gripping policymakers in Washington. We all know it is far from the last. Coming as it does now less than a year before the [...]

Presidents And Pilgrims: 3 Boundary-Pushing Books

With Thanksgiving hard upon us, now is a good time to think about our past. History writers can tell the best stories from centuries of human achievement and folly, yet too often they produce recitations of one damned thing after another. A few, though, combine a respect for accuracy with a deep understanding of the [...]

In Iran, Secret Plans To Abolish The Presidency?

The next presidential election in Iran is scheduled for 2013, but doubts are emerging about whether it will actually take place. A conservative member of Iran’s parliament recently claimed that a secret committee convened by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been working on a plan to do away with the office of the [...]

California Republicans Quietly Embrace Medicaid Expansion

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, has a very clear record on the Affordable Care Act. He has repeatedly called for its defeat and was one of the co-sponsors of the January repeal measure that easily passed the House but died in the Senate. But back in his [...]

Obama’s Hands-Off Approach To The Supercommittee

President Obama has kept his distance from the supercommittee. Unlike the budget battles earlier this year, there were no bargaining sessions at the White House. No presidential motorcades to Capitol Hill. Obama offered a roadmap for deficit reduction back in September, as the supercommittee was just getting started. And ten days ago, he called the [...]

With No ‘Super’ Deal, What’s Next In Deficit Debate?

For the not-so-super debt reduction supercommittee, failure is clearly an option. As the blame-gaming bipartisan congressional committee stumbled toward collapse Monday, washing out on even the most basic show of common purpose, the “what happens next” scenarios began to take shape. Markets reacted with initial alarm at the prospect of yet another sign of the [...]

Farm-Fresh Food May Have Shaped The Modern Mouth

Got a mouthful of metal and stack of orthodontic bills? You can thank your farmer ancestors for them. That’s according to an anthropologist who says the switch from chewing wild game to eating corn, rice and wheat could have shortened the human jaw so that teeth don’t fit in it as well. When agriculture took [...]