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| The making of Hillary 5.0: Marketing wizards help reimagine Clinton brand |
| Is Hillary Rodham Clinton a McDonald’s Big Mac or a Chipotle burrito bowl? A can of Bud or a bottle of Blue Moon? JCPenney or J. Crew?As she readies her second presidential campaign, Clinton has recruited consumer marketing specialists onto her team of trusted political advisers. Their job is to help imagine Hillary 5.0 — the rebranding of a first lady turned senator turned failed presidential candidate turned secretary of state turned likely 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Read full article » |
| Marine sniper is saluted as more than the video scandal that defined him |
| His three combat tours in Afghanistan had been boiled down to a 38-second video clip, played and replayed on YouTube more than a million times. In it, Rob Richards and three other Marine Corps snipers are seen urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters they had just killed. Read full article » |
| The 114th Congress has been in session for 50 days. So, how is it doing? |
| The emails of Paul Kane, WaPo's senior congressional reporter (and my longtime friend), are the stuff of legend in Washington. Smart, funny and insightful, they always make me smarter. So, I occasionally ask PK to let everyone into his brain by publishing a day's worth of email exchanges between us. Here's one from Friday assessing how the 114th Congress is doing. It's below -- edited only for grammar. Read full article » |
| Gov. Scott Walker’s newfound visibility has exaggerated impact |
| The rapid rise of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as a top-tier contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 is one of the more surprising stories of the opening months of this year. Whether he was prepared for this sudden emergence is an open question. Read full article » |
| For Marion Barry’s son, filling dad’s shoes is a surprisingly uphill battle |
| The rituals of politics in Ward 8 have little in common with those in central Texas, but here stands Marion Christopher Barry, in a vacant lot in a notorious housing project, wielding a pole saw and clearing brush like George W. Bush down on the ranch. Read full article » |
| Chinese soccer is terrible, and now Xi Jinping has officials jumping to fix it |
| BEIJING — For years, soccer in China has been a source of national embarrassment. It is the sport Chinese often care about most but also one that infuriates them most. For years, the most impressive ability of the men’s team has been its knack of finding new ways to disappoint. Read full article » |
| Meet the underdog Israeli candidate who might dethrone ‘King Bibi’ |
| TEL AVIV — If he wins the upcoming elections, incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu will serve a historic fourth term as prime minister of Israel, earning his sobriquet “King Bibi.”But there is a challenger to the coronation, the underdog of Israeli politics, a scion of rabbinical, military and political aristocracy: the dogged lawyer Isaac Herzog, who might deny his opponent another victory. Read full article » |
| Pakistan braces for a long and deadly war in tribal areas on Afghan border |
| RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — When 10 Pakistani soldiers tried to dislodge Taliban militants from a madrassa near the Afghan border this summer, their advance was crippled by relentless gunfire. Within minutes, two soldiers were dead, and Imran Ali had so many bullets in his legs he couldn’t tell whether they were still attached. Read full article » |
| POLITICS |
| Gov. Scott Walker: ‘I don’t know’ whether Obama is a Christian |
| Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a prospective Republican presidential contender, said Saturday he does not know whether President Obama is a Christian.“I don’t know,” Walker said in an interview at the JW Marriott hotel in Washington, where he was attending the winter meeting of the National Governors Association. Read full article » |
| Jeb Bush releases video highlighting his foreign policy speech |
| MIAMI -- Some critics panned Jeb Bush's foreign policy speech this past week as a hurried and overly-broad address and suggested that the former governor is a little out of practice when it comes to public speaking. Read full article » |
| OPINIONS |
| Scott Walker’s spineless silence |
| ANOTABLE moment of the 2008 presidential campaign came when Republican nominee John McCain faced down at a rally some of the more vitriolic haters of Barack Obama, who were shouting that the Democrat was a “terrorist” and an “Arab.” Read full article » |
| I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too. |
| I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. But more often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. If we went to college, we want our kids to go to college. If we like sports, we want our kids to like sports. If we vote Democrat, of course we want our kids to vote Democrat. Read full article » |
| When even one drink could kill you |
| The recipe, scribbled above the bar at the Brooklyn club, looked delicious — mezcal muddled with basil and lime, and a dash of club soda. But the first sip raised a familiar itch in my throat. The bartender had not rinsed the milk, an ingredient in a previous order, from the shaker, which meant my lips would now be swollen for hours. Read full article » |
| Scott Walker’s cowardice should disqualify him |
| What Rudy Giuliani did this week was stupid. What Scott Walker did ought to disqualify him as a serious presidential contender. As the world now knows, Giuliani, the former New York mayor, said at a dinner featuring Walker, the Wisconsin governor, that “I do not believe that the president loves America.” According to Politico, Giuliani said President Obama “wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country.” Read full article » |
| LOCAL |
| D.C. area forecast: Rain and freezing rain end early; a little warmer today, then back into the freezer |
| Roads are slick, but the rain should end early and temperatures will trudge toward 40. Read full article » |
| Travel remains hazardous tonight, but temperatures on the climb |
| Sleet and freezing rain will dominate after dark, making travel hazardous. Read full article » |
| Second Saturday Metro smoke incident reported near Foggy Bottom station |
| A Metro train was offloaded and the Woodley Park station was evacuated Saturday after faulty brakes filled the station with smoke, in the first of two smoke incidents in the system on the same day. In the second incident, which occurred Sarturday night, smoke was reported in a Metro tunnel near the Foggy Bottom station. Read full article » |
| Slain Howard student ‘would have found a fabulous way to contribute’ |
| Omar Sykes arrived at Howard University having spent most of his life hopping across Africa, forming a uniquely broad view of the world and his place in it. He saw the campus as isolated from its urban, and sometimes gritty, surroundings and set out to integrate the two. Read full article » |
| SPORTS |
| Capitals win in a shootout, finally reach fourth consecutive victory |
| After the Washington Capitals’ 3-2 shootout win over the New York Islanders on Saturday afternoon, Coach Barry Trotz arrived at the interview podium bearing a smirk and a message. Six times before that win, the Capitals had stitched together three straight victories, and six times this season they had failed before reaching four. So with those memories finally banished, Trotz looked straight ahead, into the cameras, and raised his right hand. He held up every finger except his thumb. He nodded and said no words. Read full article » |
| Cricket World Cup 2015: Sri Lanka defeats Afghanistan |
| Afghanistan began its defense of 233 runs by taking two wickets in the first eight balls, including a wicket on the opening ball, in a Cricket World Cup Group A match on Saturday. But Sri Lanka rebounded to ease home with a four-wicket victory with 10 balls remaining in Dunedin, New Zealand. Read full article » |
| TV and radio listings for Feb. 22 |
| NBA3:30 p.m. Washington at Detroit»Comcast SportsNet, WNEW (99.1 FM), WFED (1500 AM)7 p.m. Denver at Oklahoma City»NBA TV9 p.m. Memphis at Portland»WTEM (980 AM)9:30 p.m. Boston at Los Angeles Lakers»NBA TV Read full article » |
| Georgetown holds off DePaul to earn third consecutive win |
| There was little that came easy for the Georgetown men’s basketball team during its 68-63 victory over DePaul on Saturday night, but the Hoyas survived, and that’s really all that matters as far as postseason aspirations are concerned. Read full article » |
| FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
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| Can you measure Oscar best picture nominees with politics? |
| When Americans sit down to watch the Academy Awards Sunday night, the movie they root for to win the night’s biggest prize could have something to do with their politics. And the people who come on stage to accept the golden statuette? They have their political preferences too. Read full article » |
| Longtime USAID contractor embroiled in scandal fires top managers, others |
| International Relief and Development Inc., once one of the largest nonprofit contractors working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, has dismissed its board of directors and laid off 21 employees in an effort to stabilize the struggling organization, senior managers said Friday. Read full article » |
| Union enters postal talks using Danny Glover star power to expand, not cut services |
| Contract talks began Thursday between the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and a reenergized union that seeks to broaden the field of play well beyond the negotiating room.Leaders from the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) met their USPS counterparts at the Hyatt Regency after a rousing pep rally the night before at the AFL-CIO headquarters. It featured an array of pumped-up speakers, a Danny Glover video and the star himself. Read full article » |
| NATIONAL |
| The Walmart wage bump: who gets it and who pays for it. |
| Well, would ya look at that? Walmart, tired of waiting for Congress to raise the minimum wage, says it’s doing so on its own, providing pay raises to half a million of its work force.In April of this year, according to a fact sheet the huge retailer released Thursday, they’ll increase their starting wage to $9/hour, and the next year, move those “associates’” pay up to $10, which is about what the White House proposed for the federal minimum ($10.10 by 2016). For their managers, they plan to raise the starting wage “for some of them to at least $13/hour this summer and at least $15/hour early next year.” Read full article » |
| I’m a therapist. Movies are the best tool I have to help my patients. |
| When a shy client named Angie came in needing help, I recommended an unusual course of treatment: a movie screening.Angie (whose name has been changed to protect her identity) grew up in an isolated, rural area with few friends and little exposure to life outside her family’s farm. She was a gifted computer programmer but was uninterested in her physical appearance. Her hair and clothing often looked unwashed; she wore the same denim jacket week after week. Angie had never had a boyfriend, and longed for a romantic connection. Read full article » |
| Please address me as Mister. I insist. |
| We were all gathered in the lunchroom of my Catholic grade school. I was in seventh grade, about to receive the sacrament of Confirmation. The archbishop wandered in to give us a little pre-Mass pep talk. His excellency told us to call him “Archbishop Jim.” His intention was surely to make us feel more comfortable around him, but I was shocked. He was a direct successor to the Apostles. He had the power of transubstantiation in his hands. He could forgive sins in the name of God. At a minimum, he was a lot older than me, and my parents told me to call adults “Mr. Maese,” not “Brook.” Read full article » |
| WORLD |
| U.S. considers slowing military withdrawal from Afghanistan |
| KABUL — The United States and Afghanistan are nearing agreement to rewrite key aspects of their plan for ending U.S. military involvement in the war against Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters here, U.S. and Afghan officials said Saturday. Read full article » |
| Could Isaac Herzog become Israel’s next prime minister? |
| TEL AVIV — The Washington Post sat down recently for a quick bite with the head of the Israeli opposition, Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog. According to the most recent polls, Herzog and his running mate, former justice minister and peace negotiator Tzipi Livni, are in a tight race against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of elections set for March 17. Herzog ordered mineral water and a smoked salmon sandwich. He ate a salad without dressing and used his fingers. He spoke in fluent but lightly accented English. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Read full article » |
| Families of hostages hold out hope that U.S. review will ‘make a difference’ |
| After Peter Theo Curtis, an American journalist, was kidnapped in Syria in October 2012 and later turned over to al-Qaeda’s affiliate in the country, his family traveled to Washington. During a meeting with officials from the State Department, they asked what would happen if they paid off the kidnappers. Read full article » |
| BUSINESS |
| Labor fight at West Coast ports comes to an end — for now |
| Last night, the owners of 29 West coast shipping terminals and the union of dockworkers that staff them reached a tentative deal for a new contract, after nine months of negotiations that culminated in four days of meetings with two cabinet secretaries. The ports can now resume normal operations -- or at least start working on the backlog of stalled goods that have been waiting to move in and out. Read full article » |
| The hidden costs of being an Uber driver |
| Be your own boss and leave the drudgery of the 9-to-5, Monday-through-Friday workweek behind.Those are the dreams of many workers, especially those who have faced flat wages for years while paying more for essentials such as education, health care and housing. Read full article » |
| The underrated economic benefit of parents who work less |
| The term “family-friendly” in American culture stirs images of Old Navy sales, theme park Groupons and child-protected basement screenings of "The Lego Movie." The White House is striving to change that soft connotation, connecting family-friendly workplace policies to a stronger labor force and economy. It comes just in time for election rhetoric: as the Upshot’s Nate Cohn points out, "the parent agenda" appears to an emerging focus for the Democratic party. Read full article » |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The 12 threats to human civilization, ranked |
| Earlier this month researchers at the Global Challenges Foundation released a thorough and unsettling look at what threatens human civilization. They define a civilization collapse as a “drastic decrease in human population size and political/economic/social complexity, globally and for an extended time.” Read full article » |
| This musician is suing YouTube for libel because of its automatic takedown notice |
| Last February, a D.C.-based band called the Rasta Rock Opera was celebrating a modest viral hit, a music video featuring two young kids on a Valentine's Day date. Guitarist and composer Stevie Marco passed the video around on social media platforms to professional contacts and friends -- including the kindergarten class of one of the video's young stars. Read full article » |
| Activists in the war against revenge porn are finally seeing results |
| For years, if your intimate photos appeared online without your permission, there appeared to be little recourse. The images spread on the Web while those responsible for posting them often went unpunished. Read full article » |
| Conditions for people who make your gadgets are improving — barely |
| Apple’s latest report on the conditions in its supplier factories included an announcement that it was banning “bonded labor”in its supply chain. The move applies to workers who travel across borders and pay to get jobs in its supplier factories. Read full article » |
| LIFESTYLE |
| Can fashion launch an actress to the A-list? Meta Golding’s red-carpet strategy. |
| LOS ANGELES — The red carpet at the Rome Film Festival premiere of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” was massive even by blockbuster standards: cameras in the thousands, metal barricades nearly crashing to the ground under the weight of the roaring fans. They cheered loudest that November 2013 night for Jennifer Lawrence, posing in a pale-yellow, strapless Dior gown — a choice advertising her well-documented relationship with the French haute couture house. But there was a lesser-known co-star drawing eyes, too: Read full article » |
| Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood |
| LOS ANGELES — Sunshine is everywhere on a recent afternoon in West Hollywood. The 180-degree view from the penthouse of the Soho House lays out the city below as its mythic ideal. “Lead guitars and movie stars,” as Mick Jagger once sang. It’s easy to imagine the pretty, casually tousled young couple lounging on the balcony as having wandered out of the corner of a movie — maybe Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere,” set at the Chateau Marmont a few blocks back on the Sunset Strip — or about to wander into their own. Read full article » |
| ‘The DUFF,’ ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2′ and other new movies, reviewed |
| In this week’s new releases: A high school senior challenges a superficial label placed upon her by her peers in “The DUFF,” but this pseudo-feminist film fails to earn even a single star; the brand of comedy showcased in “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” caters to its audience. Read full article » |
| Carolyn Hax: He knocked. She didn’t answer. Now, he’s closed the door. |
| Dear Carolyn: I recently had occasion to drop off a package at my granddaughter’s afternoon preschool. Believing I was doing my daughter-in-law (DIL) a favor, I timed my drive to stop at my son and DIL’s house to pick up my granddaughter and save my DIL the trip to the school. Admittedly, I stopped unannounced, but we have a good relationship and often visit each other’s houses unannounced. Read full article » |
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