To send your snot-nosed, hacking child to school or not: That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to miss yet another round of critical meetings, deadlines or social obligations to nurse him at home or suffer the slings and arrows of angry fellow parents . . . . Well, you get the picture. Read full article > >

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Parents wonder when a sick child is not too sick to send to school

The Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin phenomenons have prompted this question: When was the last time a young, untested professional African-American athlete had been on the receiving end of this type of adulation?

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Sports of The Times: Sports’ Recent Breakout Stars Shine Light on Those Left Out

Does religion make people nice? Mitt Romney’s tax returns prompt this question. According to those documents, which he released recently, Romney gives at least 10 percent of his earnings of about $20 million a year to the Mormon Church. Read full article > >

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Is Romney nicer because he’s Mormon?

Before you can ask whether President Obama has done a good job, you need to ask — and answer — another question: Compared to what? Take Andrew Sullivan’s essay on Obama’s record, which is getting a lot of attention. Sullivan writes that “the job collapse bottomed out at the beginning of 2010, as the stimulus took effect. Since then, the U.S. has added 2.4 million jobs.” Is that a good record? A bad one? It’s impossible to say until you’ve defined what you’re comparing it to. Read full article > >

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Has Obama done a good job? Well, compared to what?

WINDHAM, N.H. It isn’t every day that political candidates are asked whether the 10th Amendment allows states to nullify federal laws, but that was precisely the question Rick Santorum faced at a forum here a few days ago organized by a libertarian-leaning group. To his credit, Santorum did not pander to the nullifier. “We had a Civil War about nullification,” Santorum said with a smile. “I’m not sure I want to go there.” Read full article > >

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GOP candidates in circular firing squad

At the heart of the clash over how best to manage a vast financial crisis is the question of how far governments must bend or even bow to the power of the markets.

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Euro Crisis Pits Germany and U.S. in Tactical Fight

Congrats, or something . How do you say “Your 15 minutes of fame is up” in Cuban? That’s the question businessman Herman Cain may be asking after another week of bad press on the presidential campaign trail. (He wondered about the “Cuban” language at a Miami restaurant Wednesday.) Read full article > >

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Herman Cain wins “Worst Week in Washington”

LOS ANGELES — Natalie Wood’s drowning death nearly 30 years ago came after a night of dinner, drinking and arguments but the question remains — was it anything more than a tragic accident? Conflicting versions of what happened on the yacht shared by Wood, her actor-husband Robert Wagner and their friend, actor Christopher Walken, have contributed to the mystery of how the actress died on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981. Read full article > >

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Detectives re-investigating Natalie Wood case facing conflicting accounts of fateful night

Law enforcement officials wound up looking into the question of a Penn State cover-up in the Sandusky case.

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Internet Posting Helped Sandusky Investigators

If, as expected, the Supreme Court agrees to be the final arbiter on President Obama’s health care law, it will face the question of what the government can force people to do.

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Supreme Court Memo: Health Law Debate Puts Focus on Limit of Federal Power

Happy birthday, TSA . The federal agency charged with protecting the nation’s transportation systems turns 10 Nov. 19. And although its supporters will probably spend the coming days talking about its apparent successes, including the absence of a 9/11 sequel, the question of whether we’re better off with this fledgling $8 billion-a-year federal agency remains very much unanswered. Read full article > >

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The Navigator: Is the TSA’s 10th birthday cause for celebration?

If you were Herman Cain, what would you do? Undoubtedly countless men have pondered this question the past several days. The query got trickier when feminist attorney Gloria Allred presented a fourth woman — in person — to allege a past sexual transgression involving the former pizza executive. Or, as Allred colorfully put it, Cain’s idea of a “stimulus package.” Read full article > >

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Herman Cain and the parked car

We have embarked on yet another presidential campaign in which religion will play an important role without any agreement over what the ground rules for that engagement should be. If you think we’re talking past each other on jobs and budgets, consider the religious divide. One side says “separation of church and state” while the other speaks of “religion’s legitimate role in the public square.” Each camp then sees the question as closed and can get quite self-righteous in avoiding the other’s claims. Read full article > >

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Election 2012’s great religious divide

Protesters in Zuccotti Park have become a fact of life. But as winter nears, the question arises: how long can the demonstration last?

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Occupy Wall Street Protest Reaches a Crossroads

What happened at Maspero? Three weeks after the fateful evening of October 9, during which at least 27 mostly Coptic Christians died, and over 300 were injured, this question has still not been answered. The investigation is in the hands of the Egyptian military judiciary, but no findings have yet been announced. This has not prevented each side from presenting its spin. A few days after the incident, the military council (SCAF) conducted an international press conference and affirmed the initial narrative in which its soldiers were fired upon and a “classified” number of them died. Though SCAF praised State TV for its objectivity, it backpedaled somewhat in placing the blame on the Coptic protesters, as initial media reports proclaimed. SACF showed videos in which military personnel were attacked and beaten by protesters, buttressing its claim that the deaths of those protesters who were crushed by armed vehicles – neither confirmed nor denied – were accidental and not part of military policy. As for those who were shot, SCAF alleged that the soldiers had been outfitted only with blanks and that a third party must have been involved in the shootings.

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Spinning the Story of Maspero: Video Evidence from the Coptic Protest