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...ranters but from a Dallas billionaire. H. Ross Perot catalyzed an anti-incumbent, back-to-basics, pox-on-Washington movement that is the spiritual ancestor of today's Tea Parties - right down to the hand-painted placards and the occasional powdered wig. Suzanne Curran, a Tea Partyer from Virginia, sounded as if she had stepped out of a time machine straight from a Perot rally when she said recently, "It's time that we speak up - we the people. We are the employers. All these elected reps are the employees. And we need to stop calling them officials, giving them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Tea Party Movement Matters | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...Reed. "I think we did in fact go into exile." The fruits of that reflection were on display Wednesday, Feb. 17, when on the eve of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference in Washington, more than 80 conservative leaders gathered on the grounds of George Washington's former Virginia estate to unveil a manifesto reaffirming the movement's beliefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a New Manifesto Woo the Tea Party? | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...opposition is just a disaffected élitist minority. "By attacking the people on Ashura, the government lost its religious legitimacy," says Mohsen Sazegara, one of the founders of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. A former aide to Ayatullah Khomeini, Sazegara now posts videos on YouTube from his home in suburban Virginia giving advice to the Green Movement. Moreover, the costs of such military-style operations are unsustainable, both in their direct expenses and in chasing off foreign investment and support. "Time is on our side," says Sazegara. "We just have to survive. They have to run a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Opposition Searches for a New Strategy | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...Heaths find a better example of a public-health campaign in West Virginia. The message used there: drink 1% milk because a glass of whole milk has as much fat as five strips of bacon. That's specific, vivid and easy to remember when you're in the grocery aisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Your Way | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

Kristie Rutzel was in high school when she began adhering precisely to the government food pyramids. As the Virginia native learned more about healthy eating, she stopped ingesting anything processed, then restricted herself to whole foods and eventually to 100% organic. By college, the 5-ft. 4-in. communications major was on a strict raw-foods diet, eating little else besides uncooked broccoli and cauliflower and tipping the scales at just 68 lb. Rutzel, now 27, has a name for her eating disorder: orthorexia, a controversial diagnosis characterized by an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orthorexia: Can Healthy Eating Be a Disorder? | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

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