Peter Z. Scheer
Former Managing EditorPeter Scheer grew up in the newspaper business, spending family vacations with his mother at newspaper editors' conferences, enjoying daycare in editorial departments and begrudgingly reviewing his father's columns on the way to school....
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The Activists Won: FCC Chairman Proposes Strongest-Ever Protection of Internet Freedom
Feb 5, 2015 For a while there, Tom Wheeler, Federal Communications Commission chairman and former cable and wireless lobbyist, looked as if he was going to bow to his old paymasters on net neutrality.
What Romney Knows Can Hurt the Republicans
Jan 31, 2015 Mitt Romney announced Friday he would not seek the presidency a third consecutive time. However, reporting by Mark Halperin reveals that the former GOP nominee sees Jeb Bush as weak and has dirt on Chris Christie yet to be exposed.
Raul Castro Has Tough Demands to Meet Before Normalization ‘Makes Sense’
Jan 29, 2015 The Cuban leader just threw down some major hurdles before normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba can be realized.
Beware Wall Street’s Rent-to-Own Scam
Jan 29, 2015 The newest thing in housing looks like a great deal for would-be home buyers, but a closer look reveals a thorny trap.
Seventy Years After Auschwitz, One Survivor Has Her Revenge
Jan 28, 2015 Eva Slonim was a child when she was taken to Auschwitz, where she was tortured and experimented on by Dr. Josef Mengele.
Dozens of Top U.S. Officials Swarm Saudi Arabia to Hail the New King
Jan 28, 2015 President Obama cut short his trip to India, where he lectured the locals on women's rights, to personally express his warm wishes to the new monarch of Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive and where women and men are beheaded for crimes including sorcery.
Low-Wage Workers Forced to Slog Through ‘Snowmageddon’
Jan 28, 2015 A huge blizzard is ravaging the East, causing thousands of flight cancellations, school closures, at least one death so far and general chaos. Many of those making minimum wage or less are forced to choose whether to venture into the cold or lose their jobs.
Supreme Court Will Hear Death Penalty Case, but Not in Time to Save 3 Lives
Jan 24, 2015 The high court agreed Friday to hear a case testing the humaneness of Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol.
T-Mobile Now Offers Fancy Phones on Bad Credit, but There’s a Catch
Jan 24, 2015 For the first time, a carrier is selling expensive phones and tablets with zero-percent interest to customers with terrible credit.Microsoft Is Going to Fill the World With Holograms
Jan 22, 2015 Drawing inspiration from the stuff of fantasy, Microsoft has announced plans to release a new platform and "augmented reality visor" that will fill your world with videos, images and three-dimensional objects.
