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Headlines from November 8, 2012
- Hours after winning reelection, the president phoned Congressional Republicans to begin the haul back from the fiscal cliff.
- The fiscal cliff explained in three scenarios. #economy
- Fascinating: Why the first debate went so badly for Obama and how the campaign regained its footing. #politics
- The election also sent a big, powerful message about what it means to be an American. Obama’s mandate.
- Also on the agenda for Obama’s second term: Mend fences with China—and build some new ones.
- Ron Paul elected ruler of planet inhabited by one billion tiny Ron Pauls.
- Sesame Street scrambled to put together tomorrow’s hurricane-themed episode, in which Big Bird’s nest is destroyed. #tv
- Due to climate change, a popular coffee bean could soon become extinct. #globalwarming
- NASA plans to set up a manned outpost beyond the far side of the moon and to visit an asteroid in 2025. #space
- Everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are. How Star Wars nearly destroyed George Lucas. #movies
- Maker Faire Africa gets ready to kick off in Lagos, promising its biggest event yet.
- Johnny Rotten: “I’ve had the rare privilege in life of offending everyone all at the same time.” #q&a
- Dem super-majority in California is a message to the GOP: What’s broken will be fixed, demographics are changing.
- Lesbians, Immigrants, and Harvard Professors. Get to know the female senators and representatives.
- Openly gay senator, Hindu in congress, demographic change in the Malia Generation aren’t a problem, but an inevitability.
- As handover of power in China begins, Hu sounds warning on corruption, demands sustainability of growth.
- Multimedia photo wall of the Presidential Election.
- Chinese author describes how he was forced out of Beijing—away from his 90-year-old mother—due to his Tibetan wife.
- The international Gulf Protection Rackets, arms sales to Middle East autocrats, will bite us soon enough. #opinions
- In Greece, protesters try to storm parliament, throw petrol bombs.
- On Tuesday, a majority of Puerto Ricans voted in support of U.S. statehood.