Political must-reads: Salon's Twitter 50

Who's in charge of the debates anyway?

Shelling crosses Syria-Turkey border

Missing teen behind Twitter hoax found

Mitt's tax war on America's youth

Quote of the day: "The best thing"

Dumb tweet of the day: "Daft"

Weird news: Attorney drops joint on courtroom floor

Rick Scott fundraising after voter purge

My prison redemption

Big Tobacco's new GOP lobbyist

Bangalore headbanging

Wal-Mart warehouse strike heats up

The drug dealer downstairs

Salon liveblogs the presidential debate

Debate fact check

Top Twitter reactions to the first debate

Calvin Trillin wins Thurber Prize for American Humor

Those old Obama debate blues

Just how bad is the damage?

Egyptian children arrested for defiling Quran

That debate was a yawn

Chris Matthews' post-debate rant

Big Bird: The debate's real winner

Tough reviews for Jim Lehrer as debate moderator

Smithsonian to lend Dorothy's ruby slippers to London

Must-see morning clip

Facebook passes 1 billion active users

Is "30 Rock" just "The Muppet Show" with humans?

Rush, Public Enemy among Rock Hall of Fame noms

Obama plays dead

California schools on the brink

Mitt's meaningless victory

Where was populist Obama at the debate?

The debate in video

The truth about Romney's $5 trillion tax plan

Barack Obama during the presidential debate

Obama's missed opportunity

U.S. energy independence is a pipe dream

Jim Lehrer: Useless

You do not mess with Big Bird

Morocco blocks abortion ship

Wal-Mart workers on strike

Study: More young people will vote this year than in '08

Four ways banks have ruined higher education

US citizen arrested for passing military technology to Russia

PBS takes a bullet

World-class boxer comes out as "proud gay man"

New reasons to say "I don't"

Voter suppression in New Mexico?

"The Paperboy": Nicole Kidman's oversexed Southern gothic

"Wake in Fright": A rediscovered Aussie classic

KitchenAid insults Obama's grandma

"The Diviners": A Jazz Age thriller for teens

Lena Dunham on verge of $3.6M book deal

Obama's "egghead" problem

On Social Security, if not now, when?

Just how bad was Jim Lehrer?