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...long, perceptions of Iran have been dominated by its nuclear saber-rattling and Islamist bluster. Transit Tehran shows us that young Iranians are willing to stick their necks out in the hope that we will look beyond those stereotypes...
Since the great people of Massachusetts have voted to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, Harvard students are ready to bring a whole new meaning to higher education. In this handy timeline, FM takes a look back at how other recent historical milestones affected our social life. Title IX (1972) Female athletes start to balance out the female nerds. This creates negative side effects for Wellesley girls, as they get displaced by the tougher competition. HIV Awareness (1980S) As one alum from the 70s recently explained, “Let’s just say things were...
TIME: Obama has said he wants to change the way Washington works. Can you all come together? Boehner: It's important to see what direction they go. So we'll look forward to his budget submission, which is early February, and we'll look forward to those first moves that we see here in the Congress. Now, if he wants to take this middle path, postpartisanship, more power to him. We'll be there to work with him. But it's not going to just be him - it's going to be, you know, Where's the Democratic Congress going...
TIME: Minority parties have tended to be invisible. How do you promote your agenda? Boehner: All you have to do is look at what happened over the last two years; we were hardly invisible. I think that we were the most effective minority party at least in the last 100 years in terms of what we were able to accomplish, whether it was in terms of stopping spending, the expansion of government-run health insurance, the big win that we had on lifting the ban on offshore drilling and drilling for oil and gas in the intermountain West...
TIME: Still? Boehner: Yes, no question about it. When you look at all the exit polling, Americans don't want bigger government; they don't want higher taxes. And frankly, I think the Congress is still a center-right Congress. And I do think there will still be some opportunities over the next two years to work with some of the more moderate Democrat members when it comes to the issues of spending and taxes...