GOP Senate primary points may haunt party in fall
05/25/2014 11:50am
Concerned murmurs are rippling through Iowa's Republican circles, worried that the ways U.S. Senate primary candidates are appealing to the base now could haunt the party come November, despite chipper talk that the five-way race is a healthy way to ignite the GOP.
Nevada ranchers cite Gandhi in protest ride
05/25/2014 3:19pm
Unlike the militiamen who came with weapons to support southern
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in his stand against federal land
managers, ranchers in northern Nevada are taking a page out of
Gandhi's book in their protest of livestock grazing reductions on U.S.
lands.
Obama signals US to keep limited Afghanistan role
05/25/2014 7:46pm
President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan for a surprise visit
Sunday and made clear that the U.S. will likely maintain a limited role
here even after its combat mission ends this year and America's
longest war comes to a close.
How 'Game of Thrones' is like America
05/25/2014 9:22pm
Look past the dragons and knights, and Game of Thrones
offers eerie political and racial parallels between the world of Westeros
and the United States, fans and scholars say.
