--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: March 1st, 2010 | Vol. 175, No. 8 | U.S. image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- Back to the vault # March 1, 2010 | Vol. 175 No. 8March 1, 2010 | Vol. 175 No. 8  Issue name March 1st, 2010 | Vol. 175, No. 8 | U.S. Issue date March 1, 2010 Location U.S. Related categories [Government](/vault/subject/government/) [U.S. Government](/vault/subject/u-s-government/) [Browse issue pages](/vault/issue/2010-03-01/page/1/)[Buy This Cover](https://www.timecoverstore.com/) ## Table of Contents Others [Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966451,00.html)[Newt Gingrich: It's Time to Team Up](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966463,00.html)[Why the Tea Party Movement Matters](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966475,00.html)[Unraveling the Middle East Muddle](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966462,00.html)[Reluctantly, Joel Stein Discovers His Roots](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966469,00.html)[The Rise of Extremism in Somalia](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966455,00.html)[Our Broken Government](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966456,00.html)[The Moment](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966460,00.html)[The World](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966471,00.html)[Spotlight: Fighting the Taliban](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966474,00.html)[Verbatim](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966449,00.html)[Brief History: Benefit Songs](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966457,00.html)[The Skimmer](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966472,00.html)[Alexander McQueen](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966477,00.html)[Fred Morrison](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966478,00.html)[Nodar Kumaritashvili](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966452,00.html)[Kathryn Bigelow: The Front Runner](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966465,00.html)[Shutter Island: Engrossing, Not Enthralling](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966473,00.html)[La Vie en Rose](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966459,00.html)[Short List](https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1952673%5F1966838,00.html)[Does Obesity Rehab for Kids Work?](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966466,00.html)[Neural Advertising: The Sounds We Can't Resist](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966467,00.html)[Sous-VideHome Cooking: Really Slow Food](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966470,00.html)[Shout Hallelujah, Come On, Get Appy](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966464,00.html)[Why Energy-Efficient Bulbs Don't Necessarily Save](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966450,00.html)[I'll Trade You My Tax-Code Knowledge ...](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966453,00.html)[10 Questions for Aretha Franklin](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966458,00.html)[Inbox](https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1966454,00.html) March 1st, 2010 | Vol. 175, No. 8 | U.S. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":210,"height":60},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://time.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"March 1st, 2010 | Vol. 175, No. 8 | U.S.","item":"https://time.com/magazine/us/3570999/march-1st-2010-vol-175-no-8-u-s/"}]}]} ```