 | | Thursday, November 06, 2014 | | |  | | |  | The Republicans gave the Democrats a thorough pasting this week. After elections for Congress and governors' mansions across America humiliated President Barack Obama, both sides have solemnly sworn that they will do their best to work together. But it was a sour, bad-tempered election after a vicious, do-nothing Congress. Our cover leader looks at whether anyone can get anything done in a system that for the past two years has looked increasingly broken
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief | | | | | | Islamic militants claimed responsibility for a suicide-bomb that killed 55 people at Pakistan's Wagah border crossing into India. The bomber targeted a daily flag-lowering ceremony conducted by Pakistani and Indian troops that attracts large crowds. It was the deadliest terror attack in Pakistan this year, though it didn't stop the ceremony from taking place the next day
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MORE FROM: POLITICS THIS WEEK » | | | Federal air-accident investigators began looking into what caused a spaceplane owned by Virgin Galactic to explode over the Mojave desert during a test flight, killing one pilot. The accident is a setback for the burgeoning private space industry. Virgin Galactic had been hoping to take rich tourists to the edge of space in the aircraft perhaps as early as next year. Sir Richard Branson, its founder, promised to keep the project going and build a second spaceplane. He had planned to be aboard the inaugural passenger flight
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