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Microsoft Office 2010:
Worthy, But Not Worth It

Why buy what you can get for free?

Nov 20, 09 9:45 AM CST
wardrobe: price of, page 314

 Unofficial Index to Going Rogue 

Palin memoir doesn't have one, so...

Nov 18, 09 11:20 AM CST
opinion

 Post-1989 Germany 
 an Unexpected Success 

Successes in Europe would boggle a 1989 mind: Applebaum

Nov 9, 09 12:42 PM CST
FLOUNDERING CHAIN

 How Arby's Lost Its Beefiness 

Don't blame recession: fast-food chain just isn't trying

Nov 8, 09 10:26 AM CST
opinion

 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

Time to wrap up the military's 'failed social experiment'

Nov 7, 09 10:15 AM CST
chinese double-bind

 No Sex Ed = 13M+ Abortions 

In China, sexual freedom not accompanied by information

Nov 5, 09 12:41 PM CST
SLIDESHOW


 How Skulls 
 Took Over 
 Fashion 

Once scary, now stylish, skulls are trendy—and not just at Halloween

Oct 30, 09 11:08 AM CDT
WHAT'S IN YOUR GARAGE?

 Why This Hot Rod Is Greener 
 Than a Prius 

You'll drive less frequently but enjoy it more

Oct 29, 09 6:45 PM CDT
music review

Bad News: Chris Brown's New Song Is Good

Is it OK to like the music but hate the abusive jerk behind it?

Oct 29, 09 1:56 PM CDT
Doug Kendall

Republicans Stonewall Obama's Judges

Procedural maneuvers help Senate GOP stall confirmation process

Oct 26, 09 2:13 PM CDT


 America's 
 Most 
 Powerful 
 Octogenarians 

Slate ranks the country's top old people

Oct 21, 09 4:25 PM CDT
OPINION

 It's Time to Stop Hating Creed 

They're reuniting, but listen before you groan

Oct 21, 09 11:29 AM CDT
OPINION

Tiny Coke Can
Is the New
'Light' Cigarette

Sneaky 'portion control' advertising blitz a cynical ploy: Saletan

Oct 19, 09 5:15 PM CDT
eliot spitzer

How to Kill the Chamber of Commerce...

...before its lobbyists
do more damage on climate change, etc.

Oct 15, 09 11:08 AM CDT
Tech Review

Google Wave Too Bloated, Complicated

And its much-touted live-typing turns out
to be a nightmare

Oct 14, 09 11:13 AM CDT
MUSIC REVIEW

 Paramore's Latest 
 One of Year's Best 

Group is a welcome 'throwback' and—thanks to Hayley Williams—soars

Oct 6, 09 10:42 PM CDT
OPINION

Don't Apologize, Meg, Voting
Is Dumb

Whitman's ballot wouldn't have made a difference anyway

Sep 30, 09 10:42 AM CDT

 Your Polanski Case FAQ 

Including the big one—why now?

Sep 29, 09 12:27 PM CDT
OPINION

 Nation at Odds? 
 Miley's 'Party' 
 to the Rescue 

Pop starlet's latest song is her best—and it could help heal a fractured nation

Sep 29, 09 12:13 PM CDT
ANALYSIS

Dentist Dropoff Leaves a Cavity

Fewer new grads,
more real teeth mean spiking costs could
drill consumers

Sep 28, 09 1:06 PM CDT
opinion

ACORN Video Sting a Lesson in New Journalism


Sep 24, 09 2:50 PM CDT
OPINION

 'Fat Tax' Is Really 
 a Poor Tax 


Sep 22, 09 1:17 PM CDT
OPINION

 Ivy League Crimes 
 Are More Equal 
 Than Others 

To grab headlines, commit or fall victim to murder at Harvard or Yale

Sep 18, 09 2:49 PM CDT

 Serena's Tirade: 
 What Would Her 
 Church Think? 

Jehovah's Witnesses no fans of cursing—but she won't face big trouble

Sep 16, 09 4:14 PM CDT


RSS

Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this space the other day about the new guidelines. She noted the obvious cold efficiencies involved with discouraging younger women from having a yearly mammogram, as well as the “patronizing” justification for... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that women in their 40s don’t need to endure the annual indignity of baring their breasts to the radiologist after all. That’s because it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who believes that the federal panel changed its recommendation for her benefit. It’s not that the decision doesn’t make sense: It costs a lot to... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

Does Warren Buffett Know What He’s Talking About?

10
Nov 13, 09 | 6:55 AM BY Michael Wolff

Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll—except,... More »

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