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ACROSS: 1 SO-S + O; 3 TE(THERE)D; 8 RâS + V.P.; 9 ENTRAINS (anag.); 11 PERS(UAS + I)ON (USA anag.); 14 IN + SECT; 15 S(I)MILE; 17 BEL(L)YACHES (by Chelsea anag.); 20 FUR + LOUGH; 21 LIAR (rev.); 22 RIGHTING (writing hom.); 23 A(GE)D (e.g. rev.) DOWN: 1 SERAP + HIM (spare anag.); 2 S […]

I’ve always wondered where the money goes when I pay extra to the U.S. Post Office for a sheet of breast cancer stamps, when I buy daffodils from the American Cancer Society, or when I pledge a donation to someone running a race for the cure. Or, for that matter, when I give money to […]

As the earth’s temperature rises faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years, the efforts of the world’s policy makers to deal with global warming are withering into paralysis. With our oil and coal burning and the resulting carbon emissions in the atmosphere, we have heated the deep oceans. We have altered the […]

ACROSS Swing voters really struggled (6) Lucille returned to vote (6) Lover confused by Associated Press coverage (7) Like a kitschy party whip heading west to Kentucky (5) Lost a seat, perhaps (2,3) Republican tenants save quote (7) Nominee certainly may, and did, put away the dishes? (9) Excited Gore fan, almost completely exhausted (3,4) […]

Hazel Dews is slightly embarrassed when you ask about her salary. She pauses and then confesses that after 25 years cleaning the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington five nights a week, she makes barely $22,000 a year. That’s not what really bothers her, though. What irks her is that men who do the same […]

ACROSS: 1. D(UP)ON + T 4. CA + U(CU)S 8. A + BET + TED 10. DONNA (anag.) 11. ELDER (2 defs.) 12. M(A + NH)OOD 13. RELOCATED (anag.) 17. A + LAB + AMA 19. O + R + BIT 21. RUIN + G 22. SE(G-MEN)T 23. LYNDON (hidden) 24. A(S)IDES DOWN: 1. D […]

On April 14, 1998, two days after Easter, Janice Lacy called the Appleridge group home in Houston, Texas, to see how her sister Trenia had spent the holiday. “They told me she’d had a nice Easter and was asleep,” says Janice, recalling her conversation with a caregiver at the home where Trenia […]

Welfare and related policy reforms adopted by Congress in the 1990s seemed to strike an implicit bargain with low-wage working families. Parents were expected to meet their “personal responsibility” for supporting themselves and their children by leaving welfare and going to work. If they did, government would help out by providing a package of income, […]