North Korea Loses Its Link to the Internet  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A strange thing happened to North Korea's already tenuous link to the Internet on Monday: It stopped.  —  While perhaps a coincidence, the failure of the country's computer connections began only hours after President Obama declared Friday …

De Blasio's nightmare  —  New York's mayor has lost the police — and maybe much more than that.  —  Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can't do the New Politics if you don't pay attention to the old politics.

Rep. Michael Grimm to plead guilty to felony count of tax evasion, sources say  —  The Staten Island Republican was charged in a 20-count indictment with hiding more than $1 million in income and wages at a Manhattan restaurant he co-owned  —  Rep. Michael Grimm will plead guilty on Tuesday …

Singer Joe Cocker dies aged 70  —  Singer Joe Cocker, best known for his cover of the Beatles' With A Little Help From My Friends, has died aged 70.  —  The singer song-writer from Sheffield had a career lasting more than 40 years with hits including You Are So Beautiful and Up Where We Belong.

AMERICA'S MILITARY: A conservative institution's uneasy cultural evolution  —  THE FORCE IS CHANGING — OFTEN RELUCTANTLY — ALONGSIDE THE CIVILIAN SOCIETY IT SERVES  —  In this series on:  —  AMERICA'S MILITARY  —  Obama's mark on the military  —  A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR COMMANDER IN CHIEF …

How do Americans feel about reestablishing relations with Cuba?  —  Shares -  —  In the wake of President Obama's surprise announcement of an agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, 54 percent of Americans approve of reestablishing both diplomatic …

Slimy Baltimore FOX Affiliate Caught Faking “Kill a Cop” Protest Chant  —  Last night, Baltimore's WBFF aired a video of protesters chanting “kill a cop"- evidence, it claimed, of murderously violent rhetoric on the part of anti-brutality protesters in Washington, D.C. The only problem?

How David Gregory Lost His Job  —  Last summer, Gregory was let go from his gig as host of “Meet the Press.”  Here's an inside look at his fall from the top—and what it says about the state of TV news.  —  David Gregory was driving through the mountains of New Hampshire when he got the call …

Dixie rising  —  How the Deep South is trying to game the GOP primary.  —  The Deep South has elected Republicans to every top office in the region.  Now it wants to be sure that clout extends to the choice of the GOP's 2016 presidential nominee.  —  Officials in five Southern states …

Republicans Block Reappointment of CBO Chief Doug Elmendorf  —  (Bloomberg) — Incoming Republican leaders in Congress won't reappoint Doug Elmendorf to another term as head of the Congressional Budget Office, according to a party aide briefed on the decision.

A Letter from the Editor  —  Shortly before the first issue of The New Republic went on sale a little over a century ago, our founding editor Herbert Croly outlined his vision to a reporter from The New York Times: “The magazine, which is to be a weekly review of current political and social events …

How Vermont's single-payer health care dream fell apart  —  It was Friday, December 12, when Robin Lunge began worrying that Vermont's single-payer plan was doomed.  —  Lunge, Gov. Peter Shumlin's director of health reform, had spent weeks trying to make the math work for a a public health insurance plan …

Behold the Worst Anti-Gun Commercial in American History  —  This is almost certainly the worst anti-gun commercial in the history of the United States:  —  One can only imagine that the spot's producers consider their set up to be inordinately clever.  “Hey,” you can almost hear them say …

Exclusive: Senate Republican leader McConnell opposes Obama on Cuba  —  Reuters 1 hr ago  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday he opposed U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to normalize relations with Cuba, and spoke of steps lawmakers might take to rein in the new policy.

Delta employee charged with helping smuggle guns onto plane  —  ATLANTA —  Channel 2 Action News has confirmed federal charges for a Delta employee.  —  He's accused of helping to put 18 firearms on a plane at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

Study: ‘White’ Southerners have more African ancestry than they know  —  Many Americans who call themselves white might be surprised to find out that they have some African ancestry.  Especially in the South.  —  In a new study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics …