The best account of an octopus wrestling match you'll read this week

Weather Channel founder claims polar bears aren't in danger because "Eskimos" are "more civilized" now

GOP lawmaker voted against debt deal because he thought it funded Joseph Kony

Family Research Council: Christians should not want the government to care for the poor

Tea Partyers' grave fear: Why they disdain young people -- even their own!

Tinder co-founder appears to take swipe at "silly Asians"

The way we talk about sexual assault is broken

John Boehner fan fiction: Three novelists go inside the speaker's brain and imagine the shutdown's final hours

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Iran talks with West, but battles over outreach

"School nurse cuts killed my daughter": Laporshia Massey died because our priorities are wrong

GOP's next civil war: A demented blame game

The tax that could save America from Wall Street

Study: Huge differences by region in prescribing to elderly

GOP's nightmare come true: Obamacare more popular than ever

Krugman on GOP's "top-down class warfare"

The abortion that could cost a mom her family

The next government shutdown is coming soon

Tea Party's new theory: Boehner sabotaged them on purpose!

Its happening: electric cars are hitting the race track

Fox News guest on Maryville rape case: "I am not saying she deserved to be raped, but..."

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Snowden: Leaked documents are safe from Russia, China

SF transit workers strike for second time in four months

Women in El Salvador are being sent to prison for miscarrying

Here is the passage that got Neil Gaiman's book suspended from a New Mexico school

U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data

Kick the shutdown extortionists out of office!

NYPD cops think Jolly Rancher candy is meth

Alleged Maryville rape victim: "I just hope more men will take a lesson from my brothers"

Harry Reid: Ted Cruz is "a laughingstock"

Where Kristen Bell's gay-rights crusade ends

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. It's called campaign cash

Bittorrent site settles for $110m with MPAA

"SNL's" gender equality movement left black women out

Donald Glover says his disturbing Instagram notes were just self-expression

Tea Party leader demands class action lawsuit against homosexuality

Literary sexism: Still pervasive and real

Breaking: Wal-Mart workers on strike, defying firings

Alice Munro too ill to receive Nobel Prize in Sweden

Dating "expert" and app founder: "Women love presents like dogs love treats"

Dallas police shoot mentally ill man standing in the street

The ultimate Morrissey memoir playlist

Black female comic shows how to "get ready" for "SNL"

Former Kansas attorney general's law license suspended over targeting of abortion providers

Is it sexist to offer a pregnant woman a seat?

Marriage equality comes to New Jersey

Yes, conservatives, please oust Mitch McConnell