Politics

Romney spent two years hoping for a miracle. On election night 2012, even Fox News called Ohio for Obama, and the hope ran out.

On Election Day 2012, a judge ordered a giant Obama mural covered at a Philadelphia polling place. Workers covered it only partly, leaving it visible.

On Election Day 2012, President Obama made a surprise stop at a Chicago field office, congratulated Mitt Romney, and phone-banked volunteers himself.

Biden vs. Ryan in the October 11, 2012 vice-presidential debate: Democrats saw a fighting comeback after Denver, Republicans saw a smirking interrupter.

After the first 2012 presidential debate in Denver, even CNN's Van Jones conceded: 'Romney was able to out-Obama Obama' — the night Mitt Romney won.

An Aurora shooting survivor publicly asked Obama and Romney to debate gun control in the 2012 campaign. The candidates grieved; neither answered.

In September 2012 a tabloid rumor linked Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar to Bilawal Bhutto. Both denied it flatly. This is what actually happened.

When the 2012 school-lunch rules capped calories and mandated fruits and vegetables, hungry high schoolers pushed back — with boycotts and a viral parody video.

As FDI in multi-brand retail opened up in September 2012, the fear was Walmart would change India. The counter-argument: India would change Walmart.

On CBS This Morning in September 2012, Bill Clinton told Muslims angered by the anti-Islam film: the insult is real, but 'you can't react every time you're

In September 2012, Pakistani minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour announced a $100,000 bounty from his own pocket for killing the maker of Innocence of Muslims.

In September 2012, Mamata Banerjee withdrew TMC support over FDI in retail — and Manmohan Singh's UPA government held on anyway.

France closed 20 embassies across the Muslim world in September 2012 after Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — a landmark free-speech clash.

The Indian Staffing Federation projected FDI in retail would create 10 million jobs in a decade. The claim, the opposition's rebuttal, and why the number

The Bombay High Court granted Aseem Trivedi bail on a Rs 5,000 bond in September 2012, freeing the cartoonist three days after his sedition arrest.

The sharpest of Aseem Trivedi's anti-corruption cartoons — and why the sedition charge under colonial-era Section 124A collapsed under legal scrutiny.

The attempt by Matthew Heimbach, then a student at Towson University in Maryland, to form a White Student Union on campus in 2012 attracted national media…

Days after the Norway children returned home, Indian papers reported another custody row in the US — a Bengali couple fearing the loss of their infant son.

Aseem Trivedi was arrested for sedition over anti-corruption cartoons in September 2012 — the sedition charge was dropped a month later.

The Washington Post's 2012 profile called Manmohan Singh 'a dithering, ineffectual bureaucrat' — the UPA government demanded an apology.