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Let Us Now Bash Robin Williams

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Comedy

Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams?

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Sarah Palin's Lady Gaga Tour of Michigan

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barbara Walters Sarah Palin, Dave Agema, John McCain, Sarah Palin Vice President, Oprah Winfrey Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Republicans Michigan, Oprah Winfrey, Sean Hannity Sarah Palin, Kevin Elsenheimer, Sean Hannity, Barbara Walters, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Michigan, Fox News, Sarah Palin Memoir, Lady GaGa, Sarah Palin Grand Rapids, Politics News

Sarah Palin blew into Grand Rapids with all the stagecraft (and subtlety) of Lady Gaga, pulling up in a bus ensconced with the cover photo from her book, down to her glossy lips and heavenward gaze.

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Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

Ari Melber | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Press Bias, Obama Press Coverage, Newsweek, Obama Media, Jon Meacham, Media Disclosure, Obama Stimulus, Obama Jon Meacham, Yuval Levin, Bush Jon Meacham, Msm, Media Bias, Obama Tax Cut, Media News

Political journalism is often imaginative, but a Newsweek article about tax cuts by a former aide to George W. Bush verges on delusion.

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Sarah Palin: Newsweek Cover Showing My Legs "Sexist" (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover, Sarah Palin Newsweek, Sarah Palin, Magazines, Poll, Media News

Sarah Palin took to Facebook Monday night to declare the Newsweek cover depicting her in runner's shorts as "sexist." In a Facebook note to her almos...

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From Randy To Rand: The New Political Fiction(s)

John Jeter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Politics, Mark Sanford, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ayn Rand, Fiction, Memoir, Jenny Sanford, Non-Fiction, Sarah Palin, Newsweek, Books News

Governor Mark Sanford -- the man who has confused the Appalachian Trail with Argentina and still holds public office writes about the Objectivist Philosopher.

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Innovation in the 21st Century: Keeping the US Competitive

Justin R. Rattner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Newsweek, Innovation, Survey, Technology, US Economy, Economy, Intel, Technology Innovation, Technology News

Despite one of the deepest recessions in history, Americans have an undiminished faith in technology and innovation as the primary engines of economic growth.

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Newsweek Ed's Poem Skewers Lou Dobbs

John Lundberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Right Wing, Media, Criticism, Poetry, Lou Dobbs, Newsweek, Immigration Reform, Scott Whitlock, Cnn, Jerry Adler, Fox News, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News

Lou Dobbs resigned from CNN on Wednesday night. Newsweek's longtime senior editor Jerry Adler published a poem in honor of the occasion entitled "Goodbye, Mr. Dobbs."

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A Challenge to Magazine Publishers -- Especially Jon Meacham

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Magazine, Al Gore, Magazine Publishers, Jon Meacham, Vanity Fair, Co2, Deforestation, Newsweek, Blow-in Inserts, Guideposts, Climate Change, Green News

If all the print publications in the U.S. alone were to eliminate inserts, how much would that reduce carbon emissions? Think of the deforestation it could prevent.

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By the People, Poliwood: Bittersweet look at 2008 election

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Barry Levinson, Anna Quindlen, Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas, Poliwood, Creative Coalition, Frank Luntz, Anne Hathaway, Newsweek, Marshall Fine Blog, Barack Obama, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Tim Daly, Entertainment News

A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.

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The Public Necessity

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newsweek, Ofa, David-Dayen, Anna Quindlen, Firedoglake, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, Fdr, Thomas-Pm-Barnett, Campaign for America's Future, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Organizing for America, Politics News

If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.

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Jon Meacham: Fox News Attack Makes Obama Seem More Progressive Than He Really Is

Newsweek | Jon Meacham | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Propaganda, Obama, Media, #Newsweek, Roger Ailes, Tv, Television, Politics, White House, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Meacham, TV News, Fox, John McCain, Media News

To the base, the White House looks tough, willing to hit back--all while the base is getting few of the substantive reforms it has fought for. I am no...

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Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Children, Cspan, Addictions, Big Money, Roger Ailes, Bad Luck, Parenthood, Reagan, Cnbc, Injury Settlements, Lexington KY, 401k, Richmond Ky, Morning in America, Ncaa Basketball, Strippers, McNay Settlement Group, Inheritances, Rumeal Robinson, Tough Love, Bankruptcy, Retirement, Retired and Broke, Medical Expenses, Fox Business News, Clu, Just Say No, Soldiers, Enabling, The American College, Million Dollar Round Table, College Tuition, Foreclosures, Ambition, Helen Ford, Frontline, Special Needs Children, John Prine, Miami News Times, Ohio University, Budgeting, Msnbc, Failure to Launch, Financial Crisis, Aarp, Senior Citizen Bankruptcy, Personal Finance, Newsweek, Balanced Life, Msfs, Borrowing Money, Lotteries, Chfc, Foster Children, Kentucky, Don McNay, NBA Basketball, www.mcnay.com, Structured Settlements, www.donmcnay.com, Mortgage, Vanderbilt University, Eastern Kentucky University, Fox News, University of Michigan, Afghanistan, Mooching, Cssc, Caddilac, Business News

You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.

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MAZIAR BAHARI RELEASED: Iran Frees Newsweek Reporter On Bail

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mass Trial, Election Fraud, Vote Rigging, Iran Election, Iran, Media, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, Mousavi, Newsweek, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Velvet Revolution, Saeed Hajjarian, Bahari Released, Bail, Maziar Bahari, Tehran, Iraq, Bahari, World News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran released a foreign Newsweek reporter on bail Saturday almost four months after he was arrested following the country's dispu...

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Positively Stinking Thinking

Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Newsweek, Obsession, Serene Ambition, Creative Thinking, Positive Thinking, The Secret, Julia Baird, Reality, Jim Selman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Truth, Happiness, Living News

Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.

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Memo To The Media: Fox News Is Now the Opposition Party

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Politico, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Washington Post, Roger Ailes, Newsweek, Glenn Greenwald, Media News

The press needs to drop its longstanding gentleman's agreement not to write about other news outlets as news players -- not to criticize the competition -- because those rules no longer apply.

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Reading The Pictures: Nobel Slam Not Enough, Newsweek Tries To Set White House on Fire

Michael Shaw | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

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Getting Revenge on Howard Fineman for Stealing My Idea: The Musical

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Musical, Politics, Newsweek, Howard Fineman, Thief, Unfit, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

A one-act musical written after discovering that Howard Fineman had shamelessly stolen from my Unfit story from Sept. 28.

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Munchkin Reunion Video: Aging Cast Reunites To Celebrate Wizard Of Oz 70 Years After Its Release (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Newsweek, Wizard of Oz Anniversary, Munchkin Video, Wizard of Oz, Munchkins Reunion, Toto, Old Munchkins, Film, Judy Garland, Movies, Little People, Entertainment News

Seventy years after the Lollipop Guild first sang to Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, the actors who portrayed the Munchkins reunited. Newsweek caught up...

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Racism Against Native Americans Must Be Addressed

Tim Giago | Posted 10.05.2009 | Home

Read More: American Indians, George Will, Native Americans, Pechanga, Raina Kelley, Native Times, Huffington Post, Willaim Safire, Racial Profiling, Newsweek, African Americans, Home News

Less known in most of America, but well known to Native Americans, is the covert racism that afflicts those Americans with "red skin" as opposed to black.

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Newsweek: Credit Rating Agencies Are Getting Off Easy

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business

Read More: S, Fitch Ratings, Moody's, Michael Hirsh, Credit Rating Agencies, Newsweek, Business News

Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the two giants of the industry, are still around despite causing the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars by badly r...

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5 Awesome Cases of The Internet Owning The MSM

Cracked.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mainstream Media, Newsweek, Internet, Dan Rather, Drudge Report, Msm, Comedy News

In case you haven't seen the ads framing Cracked.com these past few day, Family Guy starts back up tomorrow. Which is kind of strange when you conside...

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The Time The President Didn't Intervene

John R. Bohrer | Posted 09.25.2009 | New York

In the first year of his first elected term, Lyndon Johnson made the presidency look easy. Landmark bills on education, health care and civil rights were flying through Congress. But he stayed out of New York politics.

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How America's Greenest Companies Can Become the Most Peaceful

David Sullivan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Tungsten, Motorola, Ibm, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dell, Kimberley Process, Conflict Diamonds, Congo, Tin, Intel, Newsweek, Consumer Electronics, Tantalum, Enough Project, Green News, Hewlett Packard, Electronics, Green News

Commanding four of the top five rankings in Newsweek, the electronics industry appears to be leading the way in environmental sustainability.

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Love the Bomb?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newsweek, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Politics News

In a Newsweek article, Tepperman announced that we are all dead wrong: "Nuclear weapons may not, in fact, make the world more dangerous." But it became clear there is no research to support his claim.

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The Newsweek Green Companies List

newsweek.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Newsweek Green Company Rankings, Newsweek, Green Companies, Green Business, Green News

Many of the companies that finished in our Top 100 are recognized leaders in sustainability. Intel, No. 4 in NEWSWEEK's ranking, recently launched an ...

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