- Playoff panel weekly Top 25 starting Oct. 28
 - 5 things everyone should know about sex and relationships
 - How NBC and our reactionary media perpetuate the war on drugs
 - Asian stocks mixed after US growth slowdown
 - GOP candidates’ freak-out moment: As Obamacare horror stories flop, what’s left?
 - 5 dangerous substances the food industry is pumping into your meat
 - Fast food pulls a fast one: Wage theft rampant at McDonald’s and more
 - For-profit college offers students pizza to lobby against Obama regulation
 - “A cubicle is a sign”: Why your office nightmare could soon disappear
 - Must-see morning clip: Bad news from the IRS, the Social Security Administration and the VA
 - Chicago becomes the latest city to ban plastic bags
 - Sexual assault reports are up 50 percent in the military, but male victims are still reluctant to come forward
 - GOP Sen. Tom Coburn wants to abolish the federal minimum wage
 - “The Americans” recap: “It must be done”
 - The Shep Smith story shows the failure of fact-checking
 - Fox News’ real gay problem: Inside a festering cesspool of reflexive bigotry
 - Los Angeles bans the use of tools “designed to inflict pain” on circus elephants
 - Hundreds of Nigerians take to the streets, demand government action to find abducted schoolgirls
 - Bombshell report identifies major flaw in animal testing
 - The right’s cynical millennial advantage: Why young liberals stay home
 - “Wheel of Fortune” contestant with special needs, Trent, is “a smashing success”
 - What to eat when you’re drunk or hung over in countries around the world
 - Twitter CEO: Future uncertain for the @ sign, but the hashtag is here to stay
 - Charles Ramsey: “I want to remain homeless until I meet my demise”
 - #WeNeedDiverseBooks goes viral
 - Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 update: First report shows four hour delay in search efforts
 - Peaches Geldof’s cruel inheritance
 - Donald Sterling blowup’s surprise: Al Sharpton’s diminished influence
 - Everyone is reading Piketty wrong — including Piketty!
 - Politico’s false equivalence garbage: No, liberal donors are not worse than Sheldon Adelson
 - “Ida”: A wrenching voyage into Polish history
 - Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason: Why Rolling Stones shouldn’t play in Israel
 - A rotting whale carcass in Newfoundland could potentially explode. Here’s what it would look like.
 - Bill Clinton’s primary lesson: What “it’s the economy, stupid” means in 2016
 - “Fox & Friends” attacks “scientific coward” who exposed climate censorship
 - Reviewing the “Mad Men” reviews: Lines are drawn
 - Gia Coppola on James Franco, family ties and “Palo Alto”
 - Our trash has found its way to the deepest, darkest depths of the oceans
 - Fox News contributor says poor people “have a slave mentality”
 - Kentucky guardsman sues over tattoo rules
 - Neanderthals may not have been so unintelligent after all
 - Nancy Pelosi mocks Republicans for still obsessing over Benghazi
 - Mysterious fliers left on Tesla cars accuse the company of instigating the war in Afghanistan, causing “anal itch”
 - GOP lawmaker has so, so many questions about anal sex: “Is the science really settled on this issue?”
 - Conservatives, evil and psychopathy: Science makes the link!
 - Religious right leader James Dobson to Obama: Come at me, bro!
 - Colorado’s stunning indifference to fracking’s health hazards
 - Louis C.K. slams Common Core again: “Kids, teachers, parents are vocally suffering”
 - The climate-change apocalypse — made disgusting!
 - “A corrosive dereliction of duty”: Why the New York Times’ America-first journalism is so dangerous
 - My racist older lover