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It seemed like anywhere you looked last week, there was a major car company in crisis. Britain's MG Rover was the worst off. On Friday, with its already-meager sales sliding, its cash depleted and its last hope for an 11th-hour rescue by a Chinese buyer seemingly dashed...
Twelve years and nine months ago, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a devout Catholic and one of the most successful liberal governors of the twentieth century, was refused a speaking slot at the 1992 Democratic convention because of his anti-choice views—or so the story goes. Ergo: national...
But thanks to the New Republic’s Michael Crowley—and a bit of recent double-checking—we now have one more reason to point and laugh the next time O’Reilly opens his mouth. Nine years ago, Crowley, an actual journalist, boldly...
The conservatives wanted nothing to do with Roosevelt’s progressive policies. After a dispute over the allocation of delegates, the 1912 GOP national convention nominated Taft, prompting Roosevelt to form his own Bull Moose Party and run anyway. “Roosevelt had loved the presidency for the...
Macau has been undergoing an economic boom since the local government ended a longstanding monopoly and opened the casino business to foreign investors in 2002. But the Cotai Strip takes the boom, and the city's glitz factor, to a whole new level. The first part of the project, slated...