- Hang tough, Mr. President
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Iraq war general, dies at 78
- Pick of the week: A hypnotic tale of doomed romance set in colonial Africa
- Salon’s Joan Walsh describes right wing honcho Dick Armey in plain English
- White House meeting a last stab at fiscal deal
- Neither side wants a deal
- Indian gang-rape victim fights for her life
- Private equity investor: “We didn’t build that”
- The CIA’s expanding contractor security force
- The real lesson in David Gregory’s gun incident
- Republicans just don’t care what the nation thinks
- Senate FISA vote inspiring display of bipartisan commitment to ignoring Fourth Amendment
- Italian elections may decide euro’s fate
- The 10 best (and worst) tweets of 2012
- Defending Judd Apatow’s midlife crisis
- Equity crowdfunding waits on the SEC
- “Thelma and Louise,” Waylon Jennings: The best fiscal cliff tweets
- Israel establishes university in illegal West Bank settlement
- Les Misérables is an even better novel
- What’s wrong with drug testing pregnant women
- Report: Obama to propose compromise package to avoid cliff
- Even this bleeding-heart liberal believes gun owners have a right to privacy
- ’Twas the night before the fiscal cliff
- Longshoremen strike averted, for now
- Chicago homicides hit grim milestone
- Progressive victories you may have missed in 2012
- Marilyn Monroe, communist?
- The Daily Caller shamelessly shills for Big Tobacco
- Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club pulling smoked salmon over listeria fears
- Syrian regime using more precise Iranian missiles
- Could a black director have made “Django”?
- Mexican traffickers grow pot in U.S. national forests
- Jeff Bridges making “The Giver” movie
- Doodles lead to high schooler’s arrest
- House Dems to propose large-capacity gun magazine ban
- Weird news: Pet chicken fire alarm
- Soldier suicides outnumber combat deaths
- China tightens Internet restrictions
- Congressional leaders quietly leave White House
- Paintings suggesting gay clerics sow outrage in Pakistan
- Iraq vet: Newtown changed my mind on gun control
- Dumb tweet: Hopefully they forget about guns
- GOP hasn’t fallen off a cliff
- Indian rape victim dies in hospital
- Bad deal: The White House’s last-ditch plan stinks
