‘Congress Will Act’: Fight Over Birth Control Coverage Moves To The Hill
You didn’t have to look hard to see this one coming. Catholics and GOP candidates have attacked the Obama administration’s plans to require most employers — including religious hospitals and schools — to provide coverage of prescription contraceptives. Now the debate is moving to Capitol Hill. Republicans are vowing to pass legislation to overturn the [...]
‘Amasia’: The Next Supercontinent?
The Earth’s continents are in constant motion. On at least three occasions, they have all collided to form one giant continent. If history is a guide, the current continents will coalesce once again to form another supercontinent. And a study in Nature now shows how that could come about. You can think of continents as [...]
China’s Demolition Derby Turns History Into Rubble
Down a quiet Beijing alleyway on a recent day, as the winter wind whistles, two men stand guard over a pile of bricks hidden behind a corrugated iron fence. The pile of rubble was once the home of the man known as the father of modern Chinese architecture, Liang Sicheng. The Orwellian reason for its [...]
States Debate Foreclosure Robo-Signing Settlement
A year ago, banks admitted to abusing the foreclosure process — using fake signatures to power through foreclosure documents — a practice known as robo-signing. Now, five major banks and more than 40 state attorneys general have agreed in principle to a broad settlement that they say will help homeowners. But some states, including high-foreclosure [...]
A New Weapon Against Nukes: Social Media
Here are two things you don’t often hear mentioned in the same sentence: social media and nuclear weapons. Rose Gottemoeller, acting undersecretary of state for arms control, quickly links those two unlikely partners in conversation. She’s behind a campaign to discover how new communications tools can help rid the world of some of the dangers [...]
Buoyant Santorum Takes Campaign To Texas — And Corrals Some Perry People
Fresh off his hat trick in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum campaigned in Texas on Wednesday, speaking to a group of pastors at Bella Donna Chapel in the town of McKinney. Forty miles north of Dallas, where black prairie dirt meets the fresh poured concrete of suburbia, this is Rick Santorum [...]
Conservatives Worry Romney’s Vision Is Cloudy
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s losses on Tuesday, while not very meaningful in the race to accumulate delegates, have raised questions once again about his ability to inspire passion from his party’s base and about his viability in the general election. Rival Rick Santorum’s victories in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota dealt a setback, if not [...]
A Mom And A Baby Find Out What’s Really Rural In California
Most moms probably don’t want their babies around pot growers, but San Francisco-based writer-photographer Lisa Hamilton is totally cool with it. In fact, her baby, Ada, is a little over a year old and has probably already seen more of California than most Californians. And that, to Hamilton, is a problem. For her, the basic [...]
In Restive Syrian City, Signs Of Sectarian Violence
Hundreds of people have died from tank, mortars and rocket fire in the Syrian city of Homs, the target of bombardment by government forces for the fifth day in a row. And activists say three families, including women and children, were stabbed or shot at close range just outside their houses Tuesday. Activists in Homs [...]
In Russia, Punk-Rock Riot Girls Rage Against Putin
Anti-government protests in Russia are taking many different forms, from mass rallies and marches to defiant street art and music. Just recently, members of a feminist punk group were arrested in Moscow’s Red Square after they performed a song ridiculing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The group, which calls itself Pussy Riot, says it’s planning more [...]
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