Ideas to spark discussion with kids from the Newsweek Education Program

TECHNOLOGY

One MySpace exec has even surprised himself by friending a potato. This particular russet has 2,965 friends.


CAMPAIGN 2008
Obama, Axelrod, Campaign 2008

He's taken everything in stride, it seems. How Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught.


CAMPAIGN 2008

Barack Obama is a Niebuhr-reading ESPN watcher. The origins of his troubles with the 'other' tag.


MY TURN

My work offers little pay and no vacation. But I derive great satisfaction from feeding people.


COVER STORY: CULTURE
Divorce, Society, Suburbs

Grant High School's class of '82 were raised on 'The Brady Bunch'—while their own families were falling apart. These are their stories—in their words.


INTERNATIONAL

The Games are a test of its superpower status. Beijing may be flunking.


COVER STORY: CULTURE

Thousands of largely invisible American women have given birth to other people's babies. Many are married to men in the military.


CAMPAIGN 2008

It didn't happen overnight. But in college, the young Barry took to being called by his formal name. What this evolution tells us about him.



POLITICS

The editor and publisher of The Nation finds much to admire in the life of William F. Buckley.


KOSOVO

CAMPAIGN 2008

John McCain is the presumptive GOP nominee for president. In the face of serious opposition, his campaign is reaching out to movement leaders and trying to make nice.


CAMPAIGN 2008

He's endured the unendurable, and survived. Inside the mind and heart of John McCain.


CAMPAIGN 2008

The president has left his party in a precarious state. But the GOP candidates running in the wake of his wreckage can learn much from his failures.


CAMPAIGN 2008

Fighting for her political life, she has found her voice. How the historic Clinton-Obama contest is raising questions of race, gender and power.


It's becoming evident that the rising price of oil has little relationship to anything Americans do, or don't do.



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SPORTS

Luxury stadiums are on the rise. A top seat can cost $150,000. Beer costs extra.

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VIEWPOINT

The vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. So who are the 10 percent who think everything is A-OK?

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