White evangelical voters just aren’t as predictable as they used to be. That’s the news out of Iowa – and it’s bound to be reflected in Republican primary results all over the country. The most interesting poll data from the Iowa caucuses are these: Mitt Romney won in the cities. Rick Santorum won in the rural areas. In Iowa, where the vast majority of voters qualify as “white evangelicals,” these results can only mean one thing. Conservative Christians who reside in urban areas may have been taught in Sunday school that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a heretical sect, but they’re willing to look beyond those teachings and cast a vote for a Mormon who was once pro-choice. Their brothers and sisters who reside in the country are not. Because nearly 80 percent of Americans live in or near cities, that’s very good news for Romney. Read full article > >

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The new evangelical vote

In this and other cities, parks now flourish, and neighborhoods with them, in place of aboveground highways.

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Critic’s Notebook: City Parks, Like Madrid Río, Stand Where Highways Did

MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of demonstrators on Saturday cheered opposition leaders and jeered the Kremlin in the biggest show of outrage yet against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s 12-year rule. The Moscow demonstration was even bigger than a similar rally two weeks ago, signaling that the protest movement ignited by the fraud-tainted Dec. 4 parliamentary election may be growing. Protest were also held in dozens of other cities and towns across Russia. Read full article > >

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Moscow protest draws tens of thousands for biggest rally yet against election fraud

Three rap acts — G-Side, Cities Aviv and eXquire — showcased their differing styles at Brooklyn’s Glasslands Gallery on Tuesday night.

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Critic’s Notebook: Hip-Hop Universe, Expanding

Violent clashes continue in Cairo and spread to other cities; Congressional leaders concede that a sweeping deficit agreement is near failure; and Khmer Rouge leaders go on trial.

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TIMESCAST: TimesCast | November 21, 2011

In its short and colorful existence, Occupy Wall Street has garnered reams of media attention, with countless stories focusing on its methods, aims, origins and mostly youthful participants. But one question remains unanswered and largely unaddressed: How many people are actually “occupying” Wall Street, the District and other cities? Read full article > >

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Occupy D.C.: They’re occupying, but who’s counting?

In matters of race, the belief that New York City is better than other cities increasingly seems misplaced.

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Big City: A Diverse New York City? In Some Ways, Anything But

So, protesters are occupying Wall Street and downtown banking districts in scores of other cities. Many Democratic politicos have endorsed the movement’s spirit and goals. Now what? The pols are in no position to enact any further left-populist reforms — laws that create, say, a financial transaction tax, or that make it easier for employees to form unions — so long as Republicans control the House and have veto power in the Senate. For that matter, the Democrats couldn’t even get those bills enacted when they controlled both houses of Congress. So what, besides affirming their solidarity with the demonstrators, can they do? Read full article > >

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How politicians can kick the Wall Street habit

Three people were killed and at least 45 others injured, some critically, when Yemeni security forces shot live ammunition at protesters Wednesday in the cities of Sanaa and Taiz, according to doctors and eyewitnesses.

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Dozens shot in Yemen

The recovery that has taken place in Yazoo City, Miss., is an example for the cities and towns damaged last week.

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A Year Later, Gratitude in a Tornado-Torn Town

HAVANA — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana and other cities on Sunday to mark May Day in a demonstration touted as a vast show of support for economic changes recently approved by the Communist Party — even though the people holding placards and shouting slogans haven’t seen the details yet.

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Cubans march in support of economic changes, despite lack of details of what they are

Syria saw its largest protests so far on Friday, as tens of thousands of demonstrators marched on the capital and in dozens of other cities and towns across the country. It also saw the least violent response by the government in a month marked by…

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Syria Sees Largest Protests So Far

Ishinomaki was one of the cities hardest hit on March 11.

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Devastation in Ishinomaki, Japan

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in the southern city of Dara’a, and in some other cities around the nation, took to the streets on Friday.

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Syrian Troops Open Fire on Protesters in Several Cities

Protests are reported in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and other cities, with fresh reports of gunfire in the protest hub of Deraa.

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Protests spread in Syrian cities