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Judson Phillips: Mitch McConnell Should 'Grow a Pair'
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Not sure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is going to appreciate being told what to do, especially this: Tennessee attorney and tea party leader Judson Phillips thinks McConnell should "grow a pair," according to a blog post from the Tea Party Nation website. How charming. The Tea Party Nation, a for-profit organization based in Nashville, first generated major attention for its $549-per-ticket national tea party convention featuring key-note speaker Sarah Palin. (Speaking of Sarah Palin, check out this video of the "Mama Grizzly" taking a shot at the president's ...
Clever Cafeteria Layout Changes Can Transform Children's Nutrition
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Wrist-slaps, restricted options and "Big Brother"-esque monitoring systems aren't the only way to get kids eating healthier meals at school -- nor will the heavy-handed approaches prove to be the most effective alternative in the quest to push whole grains and salads over sodas and french fries. Instead, Cornell researchers, writing in this month's Atlantic, report that tiny tweaks to cafeteria layouts can make remarkable differences in what kids opt to eat. You can see a visual mock-up of their plan at The New York Times. Current efforts to revamp school nutrition often ...
After Juan Williams: Does NPR Still Matter?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- The Juan Williams firing has turned much attention toward NPR, much of it negative. Fox News, which rewarded Williams with a handsome contract, and other conservative outlets have called for a pulling of public funding from the radio organization, a sort of punishment also favored by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Williams himself. (NPR only gets about 2 percent of its budget from the government, however.) Also, there are calls for NPR's increasingly apologetic CEO Vivian Schiller to resign, which, at least to my ears, sounds reasonable since she obviously bungled the entire ...
Did Carl Paladino Really Say 'F--- Him' About Eric Holder? [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- Another day, another YouTube-generated headache for Carl Paladino. In footage obtained by Jeremy Jacobs of National Journal's Hotline OnCall, the following video, taken at a town hall meeting on March 26 in Tappan, N.Y., appears to portray the tea-party-backed New York gubernatorial candidate uttering the phrase "F--- him" in response to a question regarding U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the suggestion to hold trials for terrorists in Manhattan. "If you were the chief executive of New York, what would your response be to the attorney general of the United States deciding ...
Egg Baron Behind Salmonella Recall Has Been Keeping Dirty Coops Since 16
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Recent reports have revealed that Jack DeCoster, the poultry baron at the center of the multistate egg recall, may have known about the salmonella at his farms for two years. But a new timeline assembled by Joe Fassler at The Atlantic suggests that DeCoster's misconduct goes all the way back to 1949, when he set up his first henhouse at the age of 16 in his hometown of Turner, Maine. Some highlights: 1949: Jack DeCoster, age 16, first takes responsibility for 150 hens on his family's farm in Turner. ... Locals speak with a mixture of awe and scorn about the man who built an ...
Castro: Actually, Communism Is Working Out Pretty Great for Cuba
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- History may or may not absolve former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but one thing is certain: He is not about to absolve history, at least not when it comes a recent quote attributed to him by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who wrote that Castro told him: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," which an interpreter explained as Castro's acknowledgment that the Communist government of Cuba "has much too big a role in the economic life of the country." The quote sparked an immediate furor around the Web as pundits raced first to applaud Castro for what ...
Settling for Good Enough: The Atlantic's Reluctant Feminism Won Me Over
By Lizzie Skurnick - Politics DailyIn 2008, while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battled for the Democratic nomination, I became a little well, impatient with the the The Atlantic. It wasn't their low-key Hillary bashing (though they did lob a few potshots while waxing rhapsodic on our current prez). It was the magazine's March 2008 issue, which featured Lori Gottlieb's essay (later expanded into a book) entitled "Marry Him," which urged desperate single women to give up their hopes for a perfect partner and "settle" for "Mr.-Not-Quite-Right." Until then, I -- like many readers -- had turned to the Atlantic for weighty ...
The End of Men? Women in Control? This Is News?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyEvery five years or so, give or take, a female socio-multiculti-gender savant with shining credentials and a large reputation for Big Thought delivers a footnote-laden tract on the end of masculinity that reels off endless debate and buzz. This month The Atlantic magazine treats us to an eye-grabbing cover story apocalyptically titled "The End of Men" – without a question mark, so sure is the magazine and the article's author, Hanna Rosin, the co-editor of Slate's Double X, that they've got their hands on ground-breaking, irrefutable material. Prodded by my feminist conscience and the ...
The Death of Beer?
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyThat's what The Atlantic's beer journalist, Clay Risen, has concluded (while admitting to hyperbole) after looking at the latest sales figures. Thus far for 2010, sales of Bud Light are down 5.3 percent, and Miller Lite sales are off 7.5 percent. "These are not slight changes," Risen writes. "For an industry that relies on slow and steady annual growth, they represent a full-blown crisis." Some blame the economy, but Risen says that the real source of beer's woes is a steady growth of wine and spirits sales. "By volume, Americans drank 4.5 percent less beer in 2009 than they did in 2000, but ...
An Ode to 'Mad Men's' Maddest Mother
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyLizzie, I loved the story of your bad mother-daughter moment over Barbie and how you both talked about it later. Your story and The Atlantic's criticism of "Mad Men" in this month's issue reminded me that I haven't yet written an ode to the show's most emblematic mother, Betty Draper. She is the best characterization I've ever seen of the '50s and '60s mothers I knew. In those days before the words "child-centered household" had ever been heard, the idea that a child might be spoiled was considered a much greater danger than that a child might not be fully expressing his or her feelings. ...
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