"& Sons": Pity a writer's offspring

Report: 80 percent of adults in the U.S. face near-poverty and joblessness

My happy Detroit

"I write street lit because that's the life I lived"

Mystery of my dead brother's son

Academia or parenthood or ...?

Fast food strikes intensify in seven cities

5 of the most extreme anti-abortion lawmakers in the U.S.

Global warming, LSD, euthanasia: Bring on the death panels

"The Newsroom" takes on Megyn Kelly and Michele Bachmann

Banks poised to reclaim crown as biggest U.S. industry

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to be let go by Cumulus Media

Rush Limbaugh is finished

Pope Francis: "Who am I to judge" gay priests?

Must-see morning clip: Hugh Jackman's biggest fear in filming "Les Miserables"

Dowd takes shot at Huma Abedin's Saudi upbringing

8 appalling ways America leads the world

Go away, Ralph Nader

Is online privacy a right?

Pregnant and single at 41 -- and on camera

McDonald's McModernist roots

5 reasons there aren't more women in atheism

What Alexander Hamilton has in common with Anthony Weiner

“I think she could have died"

Stephen King to pen first episode of "Under the Dome" season 2

Are any of us really "neurotypical?"

Militia-forming police chief lashes out at critics

"Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice and husband indicted for fraud

Congress burns firefighters -- again

Twitter must confront its bullies

Students "spoof" GPS system to gain control of a yacht