Ideas to spark discussion with kids from the Newsweek Education Program
TECHNOLOGY
One MySpace exec has even surprised himself by friending a potato. This particular russet has 2,965 friends.
CAMPAIGN 2008
He's taken everything in stride, it seems. How Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Barack Obama is a Niebuhr-reading ESPN watcher. The origins of his troubles with the 'other' tag.
MY TURN
My work offers little pay and no vacation. But I derive great satisfaction from feeding people.
COVER STORY: CULTURE
Grant High School's class of '82 were raised on 'The Brady Bunch'—while their own families were falling apart. These are their stories—in their words.
INTERNATIONAL
The Games are a test of its superpower status. Beijing may be flunking.
COVER STORY: CULTURE
Thousands of largely invisible American women have given birth to other people's babies. Many are married to men in the military.
CAMPAIGN 2008
It didn't happen overnight. But in college, the young Barry took to being called by his formal name. What this evolution tells us about him.
POLITICS
The editor and publisher of The Nation finds much to admire in the life of William F. Buckley.
CAMPAIGN 2008
John McCain is the presumptive GOP nominee for president. In the face of serious opposition, his campaign is reaching out to movement leaders and trying to make nice.
CAMPAIGN 2008
He's endured the unendurable, and survived. Inside the mind and heart of John McCain.
CAMPAIGN 2008
The president has left his party in a precarious state. But the GOP candidates running in the wake of his wreckage can learn much from his failures.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Fighting for her political life, she has found her voice. How the historic Clinton-Obama contest is raising questions of race, gender and power.
It's becoming evident that the rising price of oil has little relationship to anything Americans do, or don't do.
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- This one is for The Boss Joe Girardi on the Yankees’ 27th World Series titleNYDN
- We want our Taliban brothers and all others to come back and join with us President KarzaiAP
- It’s a detriment to democracy NY GOP official on conservatives rejecting their candidateNYT
- I did it with a lot of pain. Abdullah, on quitting the Afghan runoff NYT
- Somewhere these people have to be hidden out Clinton on Al Qaeda strongholds in PakistanAP