House Editorial: Rumsfeld mismanages his way to the door

Even on the eve of his dismissal, Donald Rumsfeld is playing backseat driver. Two days before he resigned — and one day before the Election Day of reckoning — the former defense secretary sent a classified memo to the White House suggesting that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was increasingly ineffective. “Clearly,” he said, “what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.” More...

Through Murky Waters: New student activists work to bring clean energy
By Alex Sirney, senior writer

Ryan Powanda and Emily Thomas don’t fit the stereotype of environmental activists. They are shod and clothed. Powanda is clean shaven, and neither of them looks like they’ve just come back from the interior of the Amazon. More...

The Best of What’s Around: The laughs fail to enlighten
By Craig Finkelstein, staff writer

Seemingly overnight, TV comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has burst onto the scene with his new film “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” in which he portrays Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev who journeys to America in order to grasp the essence of American culture. His objective changes when Borat falls in love with actress Pamela Anderson and alters his quest in the hopes of locating and marrying her. More...