The latest Obama and Romney campaign videos dramatize the plight of the jobless. Howard Kurtz explores why the tactics go for emotional appeal—and why they’re misleading.
You'll laugh and you just might cry. This proposal from Portland actor Isaac Lamb to girlfriend Amy Frankel might be the most endearing lip-dub in history.
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After Meghan McCain spoke out on TV about the GOP’s extremists, Twitter and the blogosphere blew up with personal attacks. What will it take to stop name-calling and focus on the issues?
The press is obsessed with Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee heritage. Too bad it’s the biggest media-manufactured story since the Lewinsky scandal nearly brought down a president.
The harsh sentence for the doctor who helped the CIA nab bin Laden may or may not be about Obama’s supposed snub of Pakistan’s president—but it’s clearly a message to Washington, say Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai.
Olympian Lolo Jones says she plans to stay a virgin until marriage. From Tim Tebow to Elizabeth I, see more famous faces who were open about keeping their ‘V-card’ close.
A massive information dump nicknamed ‘VatiLeaks’ has the Catholic Church sweating. Barbie Latza Nadeau talks to Gianluigi Nuzzi, the journalist exposing Pope Benedict XVI’s internal memos.
Nearly 33 years to the day after the disappearance of Etan Patz, detectives are reevaluating a suspect who had copped to the crime just days later. Michael Daly reports.
A neighborhood stockboy has been charged with murdering Etan Patz. Why did that take 33 years? By Michael Daly.
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