Weekly Review — May 14, 2013, 8:00 am
Weekly Review
Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters
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Weekly Review — May 14, 2013, 8:00 am
Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters
Weekly Review — May 7, 2013, 8:00 am
One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize
Weekly Review — April 30, 2013, 8:00 am
A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia
Weekly Review — April 23, 2013, 8:00 am
A manhunt in Massachusetts, the Gitmo hunger strike grows, and the cause of earthquakes in Iran
Weekly Review — April 16, 2013, 8:00 am
A bombing at the Boston Marathon, a gun suicide at an NRA-sponsored event, and Anne Frank’s beliebf
Weekly Review — April 9, 2013, 8:00 am
Oil spills, the Iron Lady, and Barbie’s Berlin Dreamhouse
Weekly Review — April 2, 2013, 8:00 am
The Supreme Court considers skim-milk marriage, a Guantánamo Bay hunger strike expands, and Egyptian scuba divers sabotage SEA-ME-WE-4
Weekly Review — March 26, 2013, 8:00 am
Obama hoofs it to Israel, Cyprus barely skates by, and a Canadian suggests an unusual stimulus project
Weekly Review — March 19, 2013, 8:00 am
Pope Francis among the people, rapist self-pity, and a slavery debate at CPAC
Weekly Review — March 12, 2013, 8:00 am
Chávez cancer conspiracy theories, drone droning, and coitus leo interruptus
Weekly Review — March 5, 2013, 8:00 am
Sequestration remonstration, shticklomacy in North Korea, and the menagerie of Nutzu the Pawnbroker
Weekly Review — February 26, 2013, 8:00 am
Papal preparations, Polish diacritics, and Norwegian wood critics
Weekly Review — February 19, 2013, 8:00 am
Meteoric tidings, a paraplegic piglet’s wheelchair, and Chubby Checker’s Chubby Checker check
Weekly Review — February 12, 2013, 8:00 am
Pope Benedict XVI retires, as does the world’s most prolific streaker
Weekly Review — February 5, 2013, 8:00 am
Guns, the big game, and circular fast-food logic
Weekly Review — January 29, 2013, 8:00 am
Inauguration week politics, Aramaic vowel preservation, and Canadian foreskin awareness
Weekly Review — January 22, 2013, 8:00 am
West African extremists, Obama's gun challenge, and tragic Belgian twins
Weekly Review — January 15, 2013, 8:00 am
Australian wildfires, Giant Peach arithmetic, and Russian zorb misadventures
Weekly Review — January 8, 2013, 8:00 am
A (relatively) diverse new Congress, Brigitte Bardot's elephant empathy, and life on Ezie Street

Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:

A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.

A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
Winner of the 2012 Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books